LIB-TRAP: Standard Cell Library Hardware Trojan Risk Assessment and Prevention
The episode discusses a paper titled "LIB-TRAP: Standard Cell Library Hardware Trojan Risk Assessment and Prevention." Hosts explain how attackers can use standard cell libraries—the blueprints for chip functions—to inject stealthy Hardware Trojans. They detail the minimal overhead of these attacks and discuss defenses like side-channel analysis, rigorous equivalence checking, and re-characterizing the entire library.