This book presents advanced forensic detective control and obfuscation techniques for securing hardware IP cores by exploring beyond conventional technologies.

Anirban Sengupta (PhD, FIET, FBCS) is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (I.I.T) Indore. He has over 205 publications, 3 Books and 11 Patents and is an IEEE Distinguished Visitor of the IEEE Computer Society as well as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer at the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society. He is an elected Fellow of the IET and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He is also the Deputy EiC of IET Computers and Digital Techniques and Chair, EiC of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on VLSI as well as holding Editorial positions in more than a dozen IEEE Transactions/Journals/Magazines. He has held many Chair positions in major IEEE flagship conferences and is recipient of several IEEE Honors such as IEEE Editor Awards and Best Paper Awards from Journals/Magazines and Conferences.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to hardware (IP) security: forensic detective control and obfuscation of digital signal processing (DSP) cores


• Chapter 2: Forensic detective control using hardware steganography for IP core protection


• Chapter 3: Forensic detective control using a digital signature-based watermark for IP core protection


• Chapter 4: Protection of fault-secured IP cores using digital signature-based watermarks


• Chapter 5: Multi-level watermark for IP protection


• Chapter 6: Protecting the rights of an IP buyer using cryptosystem-based multivariable fingerprinting


• Chapter 7: Multi-phase obfuscation for fault-secured DSP circuits


• Chapter 8: Hologram-based structural obfuscation for DSP cores


• Chapter 9: Security of functionally obfuscated DSP cores