Exposing vulnerabilities of untrusted computing platforms

Yier Jin; Michail Maniatakos; Yiorgos Makris

doi:10.1109/ICCD.2012.6378629

Exposing vulnerabilities of untrusted computing platforms

Yier Jin, Michail Maniatakos, Yiorgos Makris

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Abstract

This work seeks to expose the vulnerability of un-trusted computing platforms used in critical systems to hardware Trojans and combined hardware/software attacks. As part of our entry in the Cyber Security Awareness Week (CSAW) Embedded System Challenge hosted by NYU-Poly in 2011, we developed and presented 10 such processor-level hardware Trojans. These are split in five categories with various impacts, such as altering instruction memory, modifying the communication channel, stealing user information, changing interrupt handler location and RC-5 encryption algorithm checking of a medium complexity micro-processor (8051). Our work serves as a good starting point for researchers to develop Trojan detection and prevention methodologies on modern processor and to ensure trustworthiness of computing platforms.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2012 IEEE 30th International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2012
Pages	131-134
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCD.2012.6378629
State	Published - 2012
Event	2012 IEEE 30th International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2012 - Montreal, QC, Canada Duration: Sep 30 2012 → Oct 3 2012

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Name	Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors
ISSN (Print)	1063-6404

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Other	2012 IEEE 30th International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2012
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal, QC
Period	9/30/12 → 10/3/12

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Hardware and Architecture
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Exposing vulnerabilities of untrusted computing platforms. / Jin, Yier; Maniatakos, Michail; Makris, Yiorgos.
2012 IEEE 30th International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2012. 2012. p. 131-134 6378629 (Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors).

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Jin, Y, Maniatakos, M & Makris, Y 2012, Exposing vulnerabilities of untrusted computing platforms. in 2012 IEEE 30th International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2012., 6378629, Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors, pp. 131-134, 2012 IEEE 30th International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2012, Montreal, QC, Canada, 9/30/12. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCD.2012.6378629

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