Independent detection of recycled flash memory: Challenges and solutions

Kumari, Preeti; Talukder, B. M. S. Bahar; Sakib, Sadman; Ray, Biswajit; Rahman, Mostafizur

doi:10.1109/hst.2018.8383895

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“…Logistic regression (LR), support vector machines (SVM), and artificial neural networks (ANN) were used. This expanded the work from Kumari et al [62], enhancing their detection scheme by achieving a counterfeit detection accuracy greater than 97.5% , only requiring 0.05% to 0.96% of the total P/E cycling endurance used. Furthermore, the author used three extra features besides the erase, programming, and bit error metrics used in the previous work to increase the accuracy.…”

Section: Flash Ic Counterfeit Detectionmentioning

confidence: 86%

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Flash-Based Security Primitives: Evolution, Challenges and Future Directions

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Over the last two decades, hardware security has gained increasing attention in academia and industry. Flash memory has been given a spotlight in recent years, with the question of whether or not it can prove useful in a security role. Because of inherent process variation in the characteristics of flash memory modules, they can provide a unique fingerprint for a device and have thus been proposed as locations for hardware security primitives. These primitives include physical unclonable functions (PUFs), true random number generators (TRNGs), and integrated circuit (IC) counterfeit detection. In this paper, we evaluate the efficacy of flash memory-based security primitives and categorize them based on the process variations they exploit, as well as other features. We also compare and evaluate flash-based security primitives in order to identify drawbacks and essential design considerations. Finally, we describe new directions, challenges of research, and possible security vulnerabilities for flash-based security primitives that we believe would benefit from further exploration.

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Section: Flash Ic Counterfeit Detectionmentioning

confidence: 86%

“…Another paper from Kumari et al [62] uses less invasive techniques to extract latency values from aged flash chips in order to detect counterfeits. Instead of a partial programming burst, the latency of different operations such as program and erase is used.…”

Section: Flash Ic Counterfeit Detectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Flash-Based Security Primitives: Evolution, Challenges and Future Directions

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“…NAND flash memory exhibits limited endurance, which is typically specified by the maximum number of program-erase operations (or PE cycles) allowed on a memory block. The number of PE cycles may impact the nominal page program time, t prog , and stressed pages with a high number of PE cycles may take more time to program [29][30][31]. Hence, an implementation of EXPRESS needs to consider the number of PE cycles.…”

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EXPRESS: Exploiting Energy–Accuracy Tradeoffs in 3D NAND Flash Memory for Energy-Efficient Storage

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The density and cost-effectiveness of flash memory chips continue to increase, driven by: (a) The continuous physical scaling of memory cells in a single layer; (b) The vertical stacking of multiple layers; and (c) Logical scaling through storing multiple bits of information in a single memory cell. The physical properties of flash memories impose disproportionate latency and energy expenditures to ensure the high integrity of the data during flash memory writes. This paper experimentally explores this disproportionality on state-of-the-art commercial 3D NAND flash memories and introduces EXPRESS—a technique for increasing the energy efficiency of flash memory writes by exploiting the premature termination of the flash write operations. An experimental evaluation shows that EXPRESS reduces energy expenditures by 20–50%, relative to the traditional flash writes, at the cost of a minimal loss in the data integrity (<1%). In addition, we evaluate the effects of the page-to-page variability, program–erase cycling, and data retention on the implementation of EXPRESS, and we propose enhancements to counter these effects.

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“…In the future, we will extend our technique for other volatile and non-volatile memory chips (e.g., flash memory, SRAM, etc. [62], [63]). Selecting a robust set of features to improve the accuracy might be another direction of our current research.…”

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Towards the Avoidance of Counterfeit Memory: Identifying the DRAM Origin

Talukder,

Menon,

Ray

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Due to the globalization in the semiconductor supply chain, counterfeit dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips/modules have been spreading worldwide at an alarming rate. Deploying counterfeit DRAM modules into an electronic system can have severe consequences on security and reliability domains because of their sub-standard quality, poor performance, and shorter life span. Besides, studies suggest that a counterfeit DRAM can be more vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. However, detecting counterfeit DRAMs is very challenging because of their nature and ability to pass the initial testing. In this paper, we propose a technique to identify the DRAM origin (i.e., the origin of the manufacturer and the specification of individual DRAM) to detect and prevent counterfeit DRAM modules. A silicon evaluation shows that the proposed method reliably identifies off-the-shelf DRAM modules from three major manufacturers.

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Independent detection of recycled flash memory: Challenges and solutions

Cited by 20 publications

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Flash-Based Security Primitives: Evolution, Challenges and Future Directions

Flash-Based Security Primitives: Evolution, Challenges and Future Directions

EXPRESS: Exploiting Energy–Accuracy Tradeoffs in 3D NAND Flash Memory for Energy-Efficient Storage

Towards the Avoidance of Counterfeit Memory: Identifying the DRAM Origin

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