IC Supply Chain Security

The modern multi-billion-dollar integrated-circuit supply chain is global and distributed as different entities come together to produce a packaged integrated circuit. Developers of these integrated circuits or IP authors as they are otherwise known, spend lots of time, money and effort to come up with an efficient design of an integrated circuit. Therefore, IC designs are considered as intellectual properties of IP authors, and security mechanisms are needed to prevent adversarial entities in the supply chain from stealing the circuit IPs. In my research, I use principles of modern cryptography to develop provably-secure defenses against IP theft.

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