Nov 12, 2013
Computer Science PhD candidate, Adam Waksman, and junior, Matthew Suozzo, have been recognized with a Best Student Paper Award at the 20th ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security held at Berlin, Germany, in November. They co-authored the paper, “FANCI: Identification of Stealthy Malicious Logic Using Boolean Functional Analysis,” with advisor, Simha Sethumadhavan, associate professor of computer science. The paper describes a method for detecting backdoors embedded in hardware circuits before the design is manufactured and sent to the market, offering the first purely static analysis technique for detecting backdoors embedded in hardware.
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