Using Hopfield Networks to Correct Instruction Faults

Autor: Troya Cagil Koylu, Moritz Fieback, Said Hamdioui, Mottaqiallah Taouil
Rok vydání: 2022
Zdroj: 2022 IEEE 31st Asian Test Symposium (ATS).
DOI: 10.1109/ats56056.2022.00030
Popis: Fault injection attacks pose an important threat to security-sensitive applications, such as secure communication and storage. By injecting faults into instructions, an attacker can cause information leakage or denial-of-service. Hence, it is important to secure the sensitive parts not only by detecting faults in the executed instructions but also by correcting them. In this work, we propose a hardware detection and correction module based on Hopfield networks. Our module is connected to the instruction buffer and validates all fetched instructions. In case faults are detected, faulty instructions are replaced by corrected ones. Experimental results on a small RISC-V processor and two RSA implementations show that we achieve near perfect detection and around 70% accurate correction with 9% area overhead. This correction rate is enough to secure some implementations for all considered attacks.
Databáze: OpenAIRE