Anna Duque Antón

Anna Duque Antón received her Dipl.-Ing. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau in 2019. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Electronic Design Automation group at the same university, working under supervision of Prof. Kunz and Prof. Stoffel. Her research interests include formal security verification, access control mechanisms and hardware trojan detection. For her work on SoC-wide security verification, she received the Intel Hardware Security Academic Award 2022.


Session

06-09
13:00
10min
Exhaustive Security Verification of Access Control in Processors
Anna Duque Antón

Access control is a foundation of security and is implemented in the hardware of Systems-on-chip. The entire system stack relies on the secure and correct functioning of these access control mechanisms. However, contemporary security verification methods face major challenges in exhaustively detecting targeted security vulnerabilities while also being scalable. We address these challenges with a novel formulation of security property sets. Our approach introduces interlocked property sets, which have a mathematical characteristic that enables scalable and exhaustive verification of general security targets. We propose an interlocked property set for access control verification in processors and have evaluated our approach in several case studies on RISC-V processor cores. Our approach detected multiple security vulnerabilities.

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