What is Hardware Trojan?

Malicious circuitry inserted during design or manufacturing to leak information or disable operation. It activates only under rare conditions, making it hard to detect.

Field: Hardware Security

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Questions that mention Hardware Trojan (3)

  1. Which describes a hardware Trojan?
  2. What is the main reason hardware Trojans are hard to find with ordinary testing?
  3. Which is NOT a countermeasure against hardware Trojans?

Related terms

Anti-rollback protection Cold boot attack Constant-time implementation Counterfeit chip eFuse Fault injection attack Kernel page-table isolation (KPTI) Measured boot Meltdown Physically unclonable function (PUF)

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