Poster: BlindMarket: A Trustworthy Chip Designs Marketplace for IP Vendors and Users

Poster: BlindMarket: A Trustworthy Chip Designs Marketplace for IP Vendors and Users

연구 분야: Verification

학회: CCS '24: Proceedings of the 2024 on ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Due to the globalization of the semiconductor supply chain, chip fabrication now involves multiple parties, including intellectual property (IP) vendors and Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tool vendors. Involving multiple entities and valuable IP naturally raises security and privacy concerns. Various frameworks and tools, such as the IEEE 1735 standard for IP protection, have been developed to mitigate the risk of theft. However, existing solutions fail to address all the threats envisioned by the zero-trust model. We propose a novel zero-trust formal verification framework that requires only two essential parties: IP users and IP vendors. This framework leverages secure multiparty computation to ensure the security and privacy of the hardware verification process. Our proposed solution allows IP users and IP vendors to independently convert the hardware design and assertions into conjunctive normal form (CNF), and then apply privacy-preserving SAT solving to verify the conformance of the design to the specification. This paper introduces a domain-specific secure decision procedure, hw-ppSAT, designed to overcome the scalability challenges of using SAT solving in hardware design verification. Our approach also leverages property-based hardware optimizations and domain-specific heuristics to enhance the verification process. We showcase the framework's effectiveness through its application to several open-source benchmarks.