Zero-Trust Communication between Chips

Kais Belwafi; Hamdan Alshamsi; Ashfaq Ahmed; Abdulhadi Shoufan

doi:10.1109/VLSI-SoC57769.2023.10321927

Zero-Trust Communication between Chips

Kais Belwafi, Hamdan Alshamsi, Ashfaq Ahmed, Abdulhadi Shoufan

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Abstract

Outsourcing chip production is common among semiconductor vendors to cope with the increasing demand for integrated circuits. This has resulted in several security issues in the chip supply chain, including hardware trojans, intellectual property theft, and overproduction. Zero-trust presents a promising solution for ensuring the authenticity of Integrated Circuits (ICs), particularly in critical systems where adversary attacks can cause significant losses or damage. The Security Protocol and Data Model (SPDM) is a reliable protocol that uses certificates to ensure the authenticity of ICs. Based on this protocol, the presented paper proposes a chip-to-chip zero-trust security architecture that aims to verify the authenticity of any connected peripheral before its use. The contributions include an overview of the proposed architecture, implementation and formal verification of the SPDM protocol, and analysis of the challenges encountered during the implementation and execution.

Original language	British English
Title of host publication	2023 IFIP/IEEE 31st International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2023
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)	9798350325997
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-SoC57769.2023.10321927
State	Published - 2023
Event	31st IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2023 - Dubai, United Arab Emirates Duration: 16 Oct 2023 → 18 Oct 2023

Publication series

Name	IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC
ISSN (Print)	2324-8432
ISSN (Electronic)	2324-8440

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Conference	31st IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2023
Country/Territory	United Arab Emirates
City	Dubai
Period	16/10/23 → 18/10/23

Keywords

Chip-to-chip communication
Formal verification
SPDM
SSL/TLS
Zero-trust

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Belwafi, K, Alshamsi, H, Ahmed, A & Shoufan, A 2023, Zero-Trust Communication between Chips. in 2023 IFIP/IEEE 31st International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2023. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC, IEEE Computer Society, 31st IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2023, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 16/10/23. https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSI-SoC57769.2023.10321927

Zero-Trust Communication between Chips. / Belwafi, Kais; Alshamsi, Hamdan; Ahmed, Ashfaq et al.
2023 IFIP/IEEE 31st International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2023. IEEE Computer Society, 2023. (IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI and System-on-Chip, VLSI-SoC).

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