Marquage d'IP Sécurisé (Secured IP Marking)
Today a growing number of companies are focusing on the
design of
circuits and systems, leaving the final
manufacturing to a
subcontractor or another company to which the circuit is licensed as
intellectual property (IP). Given the high commercial value of these
IPs, the respect of the contract terms is of crucial
importance. Typically, the problem lies in ensuring that the IP
has been used to manufacture the 1000 pieces described in the
contract, and no more than that.
MIPSs tackles this problem using an innovative approach based
on the principle of the so-called "physical" attacks against
cryptographic circuits. It has been showed since the late 90's that
power consumption, electromagnetic radiations or computing time of
a chip may allow an adversary to retrieve the secret keys used by the
cryptographic algorithms running on the chip. The idea of MIPSs is to
use these characteristics in a constructive and flexible way.
The goal of the project is to develop a technique to
determine whether a circuit is based on a given IP or not, in order to
detect unlawful uses.
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This project is funded by the Walloon region - Program WIST 3.0 |
