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- research-articleJune 2022
Watermarked ReRAM: A Technique to Prevent Counterfeit Memory Chips
GLSVLSI '22: Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2022June 2022, Pages 21–26https://doi.org/10.1145/3526241.3530341Electronic counterfeiting is a longstanding problem with adverse long-term effects for many sectors, remaining on the rise. This article presents a novel low-cost technique to embed watermarking in devices with resistive-RAM (ReRAM) by manipulating its ...
- research-articleJanuary 2022
IoT technologies for wine supply chain traceability: potential application in the Southern Apulia Region (Italy)
Procedia Computer Science (PROCS), Volume 200, Issue C2022, Pages 1125–1134https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2022.01.312AbstractThe high value and volume of Italian wine production determines a strong stimulus for counterfeiting, which generates negative consequences for grape growers, winemakers and consumers. In this context, IoT technologies and the blockchain can serve ...
- keynoteAugust 2021
20 years of physical document and product protection using digital methods
DocEng '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Document EngineeringAugust 2021, Article No.: 13, Page 1https://doi.org/10.1145/3469096.3476452The human hand can copy all that the human hand creates", said Baron von Eichtal in 1843 when he was in charge of banknote issuing for the bank of Bavaria. Despite all the advancements in security printing and anti-counterfeiting, these words ring more ...
- short-paperAugust 2021
Counterfeit detection with QR codes
DocEng '21: Proceedings of the 21st ACM Symposium on Document EngineeringAugust 2021, Article No.: 16, Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3469096.3474924Serialized QR Codes applied to product packaging have received considerable interest as a potential solution to the problem of industrial counterfeiting. Compared to traditional security solutions (e.g. taggants, holograms, security inks), they are ...
- research-articleSeptember 2020
A New Aging Sensor for the Detection of Recycled ICs
GLSVLSI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSISeptember 2020, Pages 223–228https://doi.org/10.1145/3386263.3407656The electronics industry has become the main target of counterfeiting. Integrated circuits (ICs) are highly vulnerable to various types of counterfeiting such as recycling. The recycled ICs do not have the performance and service lifetime of the genuine ...
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- research-articleMarch 2020
Hardware Security For and Beyond CMOS Technology: An Overview on Fundamentals, Applications, and Challenges
ISPD '20: Proceedings of the 2020 International Symposium on Physical DesignMarch 2020, Pages 75–86https://doi.org/10.1145/3372780.3378175As with most aspects of electronic systems and integrated circuits, hardware security has traditionally evolved around the dominant CMOS technology. However, with the rise of various emerging technologies, whose main purpose is to overcome the ...
- research-articleMarch 2020
Counterfeiting scalable detection image based system for e-commerce
SAC '20: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied ComputingMarch 2020, Pages 1914–1919https://doi.org/10.1145/3341105.3373999Counterfeiting in e-commerce raises issues this paper addresses through a specialized large-scale reverse image search engine called e-CoS, with a serverless based architecture for high performance. The system is tested in the area of online ...
- research-articleJune 2018
Block-Supply Chain: A New Anti-Counterfeiting Supply Chain Using NFC and Blockchain
CryBlock'18: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed SystemsJune 2018, Pages 30–35https://doi.org/10.1145/3211933.3211939Current anti-counterfeiting supply chains rely on a centralized authority to combat counterfeit products. This architecture results in issues such as single point processing, storage, and failure. Blockchain technology has emerged to provide a promising ...
- research-articleAugust 2017
Texture to the Rescue: Practical Paper Fingerprinting Based on Texture Patterns
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), Volume 20, Issue 3Article No.: 9, Pages 1–29https://doi.org/10.1145/3092816In this article, we propose a novel paper fingerprinting technique based on analyzing the translucent patterns revealed when a light source shines through the paper. These patterns represent the inherent texture of paper, formed by the random ...
- research-articleMay 2016
Binding Hardware and Software to Prevent Firmware Modification and Device Counterfeiting
CPSS '16: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Cyber-Physical System SecurityMay 2016, Pages 70–81https://doi.org/10.1145/2899015.2899029Embedded systems are small scale computing devices that are increasingly located in more of the items we use and own. The number of embedded systems in the world is increasing dramatically as the "internet of things" concept becomes more prevalent in ...
- research-articleJune 2015
Adaptive Generation of Unique IDs for Digital Chips through Analog Excitation
ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Volume 20, Issue 3Article No.: 46, Pages 1–18https://doi.org/10.1145/2732408Globalization of the integrated circuit design and manufacturing flow has successfully ameliorated design complexity and fabrication cost challenges, and helped deliver cost-effective products while meeting stringent time-to-market requirements. On the ...
- research-articleJanuary 2015
RFID-enabled supply chain detection using clustering algorithms
IMCOM '15: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and CommunicationJanuary 2015, Article No.: 8, Pages 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/2701126.2701140Radio frequencies refer to the electromagnetic energy that we transmit the identification information from tags to its reader. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) transmits the data without line of sight. RFID tags are small, wireless devices that ...
- research-articleJuly 2014
Computational modeling of the effects of counterfeit components
SummerSim '14: Proceedings of the 2014 Summer Simulation MulticonferenceJuly 2014, Article No.: 50, Pages 1–8The problem of counterfeiting is of particular concern in the Department of Defense (DoD) supply chain, where it may lead to lack of assurance of reliability of complex systems, and it may endanger operational performance and safety. In this paper, we ...
- research-articleMarch 2014
Hacking and protecting IC hardware
- Said Hamdioui,
- Giorgio Di Natale,
- Gerard van Battum,
- Jean-Luc Danger,
- Fethulah Smailbegovic,
- Mark Tehranipoor
DATE '14: Proceedings of the conference on Design, Automation & Test in EuropeMarch 2014, Article No.: 99, Pages 1–7Traditionally most of people treat a hardware solution as an inherently trusted box. "it is hardware not software; so it is secure and trustworthy", they say. Recent research shows the need to re-asses this trust in hardware and even in its supply ...
- research-articleNovember 2013
Hardware security: threat models and metrics
ICCAD '13: Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Aided DesignNovember 2013, Pages 819–823The globalized semiconductor supply chain is vulnerable to hardware attacks including: Trojans, piracy of intellectual properties (IPs) and/or overbuilding of integrated circuits (ICs), reverse engineering, side-channels, and counterfeiting. In this ...
- articleJuly 2013
Counterfeiting and Cybercrime: Stakes and Challenges
The Information Society (ISOC), Volume 29, Issue 4July-September 2013, Pages 219–226https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2013.792303This article shows that while cybercrime and counterfeiting are related phenomena, they do not necessarily form a single global hybrid system; each network retains its own characteristics. By juxtaposing our current conceptual understandings of ...
- research-articleJune 2012
Identification of recovered ICs using fingerprints from a light-weight on-chip sensor
DAC '12: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation ConferenceJune 2012, Pages 703–708https://doi.org/10.1145/2228360.2228486The counterfeiting and recycling of integrated circuits (ICs) have become major problems in recent years, potentially impacting the security of electronic systems bound for military, financial, or other critical applications. With identical ...
- research-articleJune 2012
Can EDA combat the rise of electronic counterfeiting?
- Farinaz Koushanfar,
- Saverio Fazzari,
- Carl McCants,
- William Bryson,
- Matthew Sale,
- Peilin Song,
- Miodrag Potkonjak
DAC '12: Proceedings of the 49th Annual Design Automation ConferenceJune 2012, Pages 133–138https://doi.org/10.1145/2228360.2228386The Semiconductor Industry Associates (SIA) estimates that counterfeiting costs the US semiconductor companies $7.5B in lost revenue, and this is indeed a growing global problem. Repackaging the old ICs, selling the failed test parts, as well as gray ...
- research-articleJanuary 2011
Exposing the Flaws of Censorship by Domain Name
IEEE Security and Privacy (IEEE-SEC-PRIVACY), Volume 9, Issue 1January 2011, Pages 83–87https://doi.org/10.1109/MSP.2011.8The Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA) would force operators of domain name servers and Internet service providers to block domain names deemed "dedicated to infringing activities," thereby harnessing remote technical connections ...
- research-articleOctober 2010
Secure protocols for serverless remote product authentication
WESS '10: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Embedded Systems SecurityOctober 2010, Article No.: 11, Pages 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/1873548.1873559Industrial companies lose large sums of money because of counterfeits and they need to efficiently protect their trademarks. Most of them implement their own anti-counterfeiting policy to deal with the menace. A number of technologies, such as holograms,...