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据breakingdefense网2020年5月29日报道，DARPA启动一个为期四年计划，探索将安全功能集成到微芯片的方法，确保未来供应链安全。
项目名为“安全硅的自动实现方法” (AISS)，概念很简单，但技术难度很大。
DARPA人员说：“AISS旨在通过自动化技术将安全性纳入芯片设计过程，便于小型设计团队（初创公司、中小公司等）更灵活、更经济有效地在设计中落实安全措施”，“总体看，DARPA希望通过AISS提高芯片设计过程的自动化水平，大大减轻采用安全措施的负担”。
5月27日发布会透露，有两个AISS 研究团队获选：
- 新思科技(Synopsys)，Arm公司，波音，佛罗里达州立大学佛罗里达网络安全研究所，德州农工大学，UltraSoC公司和加州大学；
- 诺斯罗普·格鲁曼公司，IBM，阿肯色州立大学和佛罗里达州立大学。
DARPA Seeks Secure Microchip Supply Chain
“Once a chip is designed, adding security after the fact or making changes to address newly discovered threats is nearly impossible,” explains a DARPA spokesperson.
WASHINGTON: DARPA has launched a four-year project to find ways to design security features into microchips as they are being made to help ensure the future supply chain.
While the name of the project is daunting — Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon (AISS) — and the technical requirements are a serious challenge, the concept is pretty simple.
“AISS aims to automate the process of incorporating security into chip designs, making it easier and potentially more cost effective for any organization with even a small design team (start-ups, mid-size companies, etc.) to build security measures into their designs,” a DARPA spokesperson told Breaking D today.
“Overall, with AISS DARPA aims to bring greater automation to the chip design process to profoundly decrease the burden of including security measures,” the spokesperson said.
The two winning teams, according to a May 27 DARPA press release, are:
The two AISS research teams are:
- Synopsys, Arm, Boeing, Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research at the University of Florida, Texas A&M University, UltraSoC, and the University of California, San Diego
- Northrop Grumman, IBM, University of Arkansas, and University of Florida
“Research and development on the $75 million program was commenced two weeks ago and incremental capabilities are expected to roll out to the chip design community over the next four years,” the spokesperson said in an email. “Our hope is that many of the capabilities will start appearing as features in commercial design automation software before the program completion.”
Digital integrated circuits are the engines that drive modern computers, and everyday digital devices such as smart phones. They are critical to the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT). As such, they increasingly have become a key target of hacking by US adversaries and cyber criminals alike, DARPA explains.
“Threats to IC chips are well known, and despite various measures designed to mitigate them, hardware developers have largely been slow to implement security solutions due to limited expertise, high cost and complexity,” the DARPA release says. “Further, when unsecure circuits are used in critical systems, the lack of embedded countermeasures exposes them to exploitation.”
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