Cycuity, Inc.

Kristoffer Wilkerson

Vijay Seshadri

Jason K Oberg

Alric Althoff

Nicole Fern

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for analyzing hardware designs for vulnerabilities to side-channel attacks. One of the methods includes receiving a request to analyze a device hardware design for side-channel vulnerabilities in the device after being manufactured. Physical characteristics data is obtained representing one or more physical characteristics of the device based on the device hardware design. Information flow analysis is performed to identify one or more signals of interest corresponding to digital assets. From the physical characteristics data and the one or more signals of interest, data representing potentially vulnerable signals in the device hardware design is generated. A leakage model is generated for the potentially vulnerable signals that quantifies one or more leakage criteria for one or more structures of the device hardware design.

Analyzing hardware designs for vulnerabilities to side-channel attacks

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying security vulnerabilities introduced by transformations to a hardware design. One of the methods includes obtaining a security model for an initial electronic hardware design and a modified electronic hardware design. An analysis process is performed on the initial representation and on the modified representation of the electronic hardware design according to the security model. If the modified electronic hardware design introduced a security vulnerability relative to the initial electronic hardware design, information representing the introduced security vulnerability is provided.

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