Collaborative Research: CI-ADDO-NEW: Trust-Hub: Design of Trust Benchmarks, Hardware Validation Platforms and a Web-Based Dissemination Portal

目标：Trust-Hub项目的目标是在数字硬件行业引领一场社区范围的运动，以实现更强的保证。Trust-Hub是研究人员和从业人员之间共享信息的一种手段，可以加速开发针对硬件级攻击的防御措施。该项目建议开发Trust-Hub，这是一个基于Web的技术论文、基准测试、硬件平台、源代码、工具和其他信息的中央存储库，可以加速硬件安全的研究和开发。智力优势：该项目计划开发感染硬件木马的基准测试电路（称为信任基准测试），创建验证信任基准测试的硬件平台，并开发一个门户网站，以加速硬件安全和信任的研究和开发。该项目包括（i）创建大量静态信任基准，（ii）基准复杂性分析，（iii）使用难以检测的特洛伊木马实例动态生成信任基准的程序，（iv）硬件仿真平台和特洛伊木马检测方法验证，（vii）基于Web的Trust-Hub存储库，以及（viii）综合验证测试套件。该项目的结果将引起无晶圆厂半导体公司、美国政府机构和全球大学研究人员的兴趣。对社会的好处包括医疗保健、国防、天气预报、金融、交通和汽车应用中值得信赖的电子产品。通过将该项目的成果整合到现有课程中，并在本科生和研究生课程中开设新课程，PI将向学生传授尖端的工程知识，并提高他们的硬件设计，安全验证和测试技能。

Objective:The objective of Trust-Hub project is to lead a community-wide movement toward stronger assurances inthe digital hardware industry. The Trust-Hub is a means for information sharing between researchers andpractitioners to accelerate the development of defenses against hardware-level attacks. This projectproposes the development of Trust-Hub, a central web-based repository for technical papers, benchmarks,hardware platforms, source codes, tools, and other information that accelerates hardware security researchand developments.Intellectual Merits:This project plans to develop benchmark circuits infected with hardware Trojans (called trustbenchmarks), create hardware platforms to validate trust benchmarks, and develop a web portal toaccelerate research and development in hardware security and trust. The project includes (i) creation of alarge set of static trust benchmarks, (ii) benchmark complexity analysis, (iii) procedures to dynamicallygenerate trust benchmarks with hard-to-detect Trojan instances, (iv) platforms for hardware emulation andvalidation of Trojan detection methods, (vii) a web-based repository called Trust-Hub, and (viii)comprehensive validation test suites.Broader Impacts:The results of this project would be of interest to fab-less semiconductor companies, US governmentagencies and university researchers worldwide. Benefits to the society include trustworthy electronics forhealthcare, defense, weather forecasting, finance, transportation, and automotive applications. Byintegrating the results of this project into existing courses and by offering new courses in theundergraduate and graduate curriculum, the PIs will impart cutting-edge engineering knowledge tostudents and improve their hardware design, security verification and test skills.