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Jonathan Graf and Scott Harper will be attending the NDIA FPGA Assurance Workshop on February 27-28. Our sponsors will be briefing on our research from the DPA Title III Trusted FPGA program. Come on out, learn about our research, and chat with Scott and Jon!
Graf Research Corporation is going to XSWG! We have been invited to give the lecture “A Cryptographically Secure Immutable Memory for Irrefutable Tamper Logging” at both groups: Longmont, Colorado (Oct 17-19) and Herndon, Virginia (Nov 7-9). Contributors to the lecture include Jonathan Graf, Ali Asgar Sohanghpurwala, Matt French, and Dr. Andrew Schmidt from USC-ISI. Register for the conference and come see us!
Jonathan Graf will present an invited lecture on "Optimizing Forward Design Trust for FPGAs" at the 2017 Single Event Effects Symposium / Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices Workshop in San Diego on May 25. Come on out and see us!
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Optimizing Forward Design Trust for FPGAs
Jonathan Graf
Abstract: Graf Research Corporation is developing a workflow to enable optimal forward design trust for Field Programmable Gate Arrays. This flow is enabled by a blend of commercial EDA software, Graf Research specialized tools and techniques, and, as needed, custom trust analysis tools and techniques. Custom tools include PV-Bit, which bridges the current gap between a trusted gate level netlist and the FPGA bitstream, bringing trust all the way into the bitstream. To develop a trusted gate-level netlist, other trust analysis techniques must have preceded the use of PV-Bit. The Graf Research contribution during synthesis, map, place, and route steps, is a tool called OpTrust, which uses a game theoretic decision engine to prescribe the optimal set of tests for the trust analysis of a design based on current threat data, the criticality of the design, and the availability of commercial verification or custom hardware Trojan detection methods. Another element of trusted design is trusting the 3rd-Party IP cores present in the design. The end goal of this assessment flow is to put the trust analysis of FPGA designs within the reach of the FPGA developer. That is, we wish to ensure that the developer might perform the trust analysis themselves, pushing trust forward as each step in the design process is completed, concluding with a trusted bitstream.
Graf Research and the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute will publish our work on “Irrefutable Tamper Logging through FPGA Key Management” at the 2017 DoD Anti-Tamper Conference. Co-authors include Jonathan Graf and Ali Asgar Sohanghpurwala from Graf Research and Matthew French and Dr. Andrew Schmidt from USC-ISI.
Graf Research has been awarded a Phase 0 BAA research project entitled DPA Title III Trusted FPGAs.
Brief Program Summary: The Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) have identified Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) as a critical enabling technology across a wide variety of present and future systems. Advanced, commercially available FPGAs do not meet DoD's requirements for Trusted Systems as they are manufactured in un-Trusted fabrication facilities, primarily off-shore, and are considered vulnerable to tampering and insertion of malicious software and/or hardware. This program seeks to improve the security posture and reduce the risk associated with FPGA technology by addressing security concerns in the design, development, fabrication and supply lifecycle of FPGA devices. The purpose of this study is to conduct an analysis and develop an approach to ensure the availability of advanced “Trusted” and space qualified re-programmable FPGAs technology to support DoD/IC applications including satellite and strategic missile systems. “Trust” is defined as assurance of the integrity and availability of a product wherein that product will reliably operate as intentionally designed and not contain any malicious hardware and/or software that will compromise the intended application; e.g., exfiltration of sensitive data, etc. Efforts envisioned during this Phase 0 study include: analysis of current FPGA manufacturing capabilities; analysis of future technical capabilities needed to meet the needs of the FPGA market (USG and commercial); creation of a draft technical plan and schedule to establish a Trusted source for space qualified FPGA devices, to include (non-binding) high-level cost projections, to establish quantitative “Trust” criteria for FPGAs; identification and analysis of the markets for FPGAs; and identification of business strategies to ensure long term success in the Trusted and space qualified FPGA market.
Jonathan Graf will be giving an invited talk, entitled "A Few Thoughts about FPGA Trust," and leading a working group brainstorming session at the 2017 NDIA FPGA Assurance Workshop on March 1-2. Be sure to come out to attend this stimulating event!
Jonathan Graf will be presenting an invited lecture entitled "FPGA Trust: Threats, Methods, Metrics, and Optimization" to the Hardware Security Symposium at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies on May 2, 2016.
Jonathan Graf will be attending the Xilinx Security Working Group in Longmont, CO from October 26-28. Be sure to say hello and chat about our upcoming research!
