Testing a secure system is often considered as a severe bottleneck. While testability requires to an increase in both observability and controllability, secure chips are designed with the reverse in mind, limiting access to chip content and on-chip controllability functions. As a result, using usual design for testability techniques when designing secure ICs may seriously decrease the level of security provided by the chip. This dilemma is even more severe as secure applications need well-tested hardware to ensure that the programmed operations are correctly executed. In this paper, a security analysis of the scan technique is performed. This analysis aims at pointing out the security vulnerability induced by using such a DfT technique. A solution securing the scan is finally proposed.
Among the attacks applied on secure circuits, fault injection techniques consist in the use of a combination of environmental conditions that induce computational errors in the chip that can leak protected informations. The purpose of our study is to build an accurate model able to describe the behaviour of CMOS circuits in presence of deliberated short supply voltage variations. This behaviour depends strongly on the basic gates (combinational logic, registers.. .) that make up the circuit. In this paper, we show why D-flip-flop are resistant to power supply glitches occurring between clock transitions and we propose an approach to evaluate the basic elements sensitivities towards faults generated by power glitches. Our aimed model will consequently be dependent on this sensitivity.
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