Securing Hardware Supply Chain with an Unforgeable Root of Trust
The multinational-distributed nature of integrated circuits (IC) supply chain has made it vulnerable to hardware security attacks such as Trojan Insertion and IC counterfeit.
These have severe financial consequences, for example, counterfeiting is costing the UK economy around £30bn and is putting at risk 14,800 jobs. It is also undermining the business models of major UK design companies such as ARM. These attacks are serious threats to national security if compromised electronic devices are incorporated into sensitive systems.
This project aims to create an infrastructure to enforce reliable tracking of electronic systems throughout its life cycle to mitigate against said attacks. This will be achieved by designing an unforgeable hardware root of trust that can be embedded in each computing device that allows tracking and life time monitoring of embedded devices