The objective of Trust-Hub project is to lead a community-wide movement toward stronger assurances in the digital hardware industry. The Trust-Hub is a means for information sharing between researchers and practitioners to accelerate the development of defenses against hardware-level attacks. This project proposes the development of Trust-Hub, a central web-based repository for technical papers, benchmarks, hardware platforms, source codes, tools, and other information that accelerates hardware security research and developments.
Intellectual Merits: This project plans to develop benchmark circuits infected with hardware Trojans (called trust benchmarks), create hardware platforms to validate trust benchmarks, and develop a web portal to accelerate research and development in hardware security and trust. The project includes (i) creation of a large set of static trust benchmarks, (ii) benchmark complexity analysis, (iii) procedures to dynamically generate trust benchmarks with hard-to-detect Trojan instances, (iv) platforms for hardware emulation and validation of Trojan detection methods, (vii) a web-based repository called Trust-Hub, and (viii) comprehensive validation test suites.
Broader Impacts: The results of this project would be of interest to fab-less semiconductor companies, US government agencies and university researchers worldwide. Benefits to the society include trustworthy electronics for healthcare, defense, weather forecasting, finance, transportation, and automotive applications. By integrating the results of this project into existing courses and by offering new courses in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, the PIs will impart cutting-edge engineering knowledge to students and improve their hardware design, security verification and test skills.
