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8 Modern Weapons: Possibilities and Limitations
Safety control technologies in microelectronics
Control of the correctness of
microcircuit design
Physical control of microcircuits
Functional control
- Controlling/ensuring safety of design, IP,
lists of connections, digital streams, firmware,
etc.
- Destructive analysis of ICs and printed
circuit boards containing ICs
- Non-destructive tests and control of ICs
randomly selected from the batch
Fig. 8.14 Main functional units of the JFAC center
The third JFAC division exclusively performs functional verification of the microcircuits randomly sampled from the entire batch of microcircuits supplied from an
untrusted manufacturer. It is not clear from the analyzed slide, but it is absolutely
evident to add that, in addition to the standard procedures of verification (testing)
of the correspondence of the microcircuit to functionality requirements, additional
operations are performed here aimed at identification of possible hardware Trojans
embedded in the IC. Means of activation of such malware and possible methods of
its identification were considered in this encyclopedia above in sufficient detail.
Figure 8.14 shows a more detailed structure of a modern center of microcircuit
safety analysis with indication of specific units and analysis methods.
Figure 8.15 demonstrates end results of many years of activity of military, industrial, and other governmental bodies of the USA in the field of ensuring safety of
channels for microcircuit supply from foreign manufacturers.
Participants of the Security Five include army, navy, NSA, DMEA, DISA, NRO,
MDA, and many departments like Department of Energy.
As a result of many years of goal-oriented activity, five basic directions for
ensuring the protection of microcircuit supply channels have emerged and are
successfully operating in the United States, which the authors refer to as the
Golden Security Five. In Fig. 8.15, they are presented in the form of covers of
conventional corresponding “volumes” of sets of statutory, regulatory, technical, and
govern-mental documents with a single subtitle “Foreign Intervention. Protection”.
These are the following complex directions:
8 Modern Weapons: Possibilities and Limitations
Safety control technologies in microelectronics
Control of the correctness of
microcircuit design
Physical control of microcircuits
Functional control
- Controlling/ensuring safety of design, IP,
lists of connections, digital streams, firmware,
etc.
- Destructive analysis of ICs and printed
circuit boards containing ICs
- Non-destructive tests and control of ICs
randomly selected from the batch
Fig. 8.14 Main functional units of the JFAC center
The third JFAC division exclusively performs functional verification of the microcircuits randomly sampled from the entire batch of microcircuits supplied from an
untrusted manufacturer. It is not clear from the analyzed slide, but it is absolutely
evident to add that, in addition to the standard procedures of verification (testing)
of the correspondence of the microcircuit to functionality requirements, additional
operations are performed here aimed at identification of possible hardware Trojans
embedded in the IC. Means of activation of such malware and possible methods of
its identification were considered in this encyclopedia above in sufficient detail.
Figure 8.14 shows a more detailed structure of a modern center of microcircuit
safety analysis with indication of specific units and analysis methods.
Figure 8.15 demonstrates end results of many years of activity of military, industrial, and other governmental bodies of the USA in the field of ensuring safety of
channels for microcircuit supply from foreign manufacturers.
Participants of the Security Five include army, navy, NSA, DMEA, DISA, NRO,
MDA, and many departments like Department of Energy.
As a result of many years of goal-oriented activity, five basic directions for
ensuring the protection of microcircuit supply channels have emerged and are
successfully operating in the United States, which the authors refer to as the
Golden Security Five. In Fig. 8.15, they are presented in the form of covers of
conventional corresponding “volumes” of sets of statutory, regulatory, technical, and
govern-mental documents with a single subtitle “Foreign Intervention. Protection”.
These are the following complex directions: