Fault-Resistant Partitioning

This repository contains the source code for the paper Fault-Resistant Partitioning of Secure CPUs for System Co-Verification against Faults (see Publication).

TL;DR

# Build tool using Cmake
cmake src -Bbuild && cmake --build build

# The following executes two use cases which run in a reasonable amount of time

# Evaluate Skinny64's robustness to 2 faults (10s) and print verification logs
./build/k-partitions skinny_red3 &&
less out/skinny_red3/log

# Evaluate Ibex's Register file robustness to 1 faults (1min 30) and print verification logs
./build/k-partitions regfile_k1 &&
less out/regfile_k1/log

Overview

The repository is structured as follows:

• src: Algorithm source code for evaluating circuit robustness against fault injections.
• submission_cases: Case studies evaluated in the paper.
• example: Examples illustrating how to adapt the tool to your own use cases.
• config: Configuration files for the tool.

Install and Build

Clone this repository along with its cxxsat and json submodules:

git clone <this_repo_URL> --recurse-submodules

or initialize and update the submodules if you've already cloned the repository:

git submodule update --init --recursive src/cxxsat src/json

Build the executable using Cmake:

cmake src -Bbuild
cmake --build build

The project is built in the build directory.

Alternatively, a Dockerfile sets the execution environment in a container and builds the k-partitions tool in the current folder using a mount point

docker build -t kfrp-artifact .
docker run -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -v $(pwd):/artifact -it kfrp-artifact

Usage

Define the use cases to be evaluated in the configuration file config/config_file.json. See the README.md in the config folder for details.

Run the executable with your chosen configuration:

./build/k-partitions [CONFIG_name]

Refer to the submission_cases folder to reproduce examples from our paper.

Results Interpretations

Unless specified otherwise in conf_file.json, the partitioning analysis produces a log file in the out folder. The following sections explain the output format.

Design info

Initially, the design characteristics and initial partitioning information are displayed:

******* Circuit Stats ********
Cells size: 8488
Sigs size: 8552
Inputs size: 60
Ouputs size: 137
Registers size: 1404
Nets size: 10311

******* Partition info ********
Number of partitions: 1404
Largest partitions: (0: 1) (1: 1) (2: 1) (3: 1) (4: 1) (5: 1)
Contents of 0: (gen_lockstep: 1) (gen_regfile_ff: 0)
Contents of 1: (gen_lockstep: 1) (gen_regfile_ff: 0)
Contents of 2: (gen_lockstep: 1) (gen_regfile_ff: 0)
Contents of 3: (gen_lockstep: 1) (gen_regfile_ff: 0)

The Partition info shows the size of the largest partitions in the <idx: size> format. The content of the four largest partitions is given according to design modules. The Partition info is displayed for each algorithm iteration to track the evolution of partition construction.

Procedure 1 -- Build partitions

Procedure 1 corresponds to BuildPartitioning in Algorithm 1 of our Publication. For each iteration, a budget of k faults is divided between faulty partitions and combinational gates. A SAT query is sent to a solver, and partitions are merged if SAT. The algorithm proceeds to the next iteration otherwise. An example of log output from one iteration is given below:

-------------------------------------------------------------
Partitioning for 0/341 faulty partitions,
1/3411 combinational faults at initial state,
and 0/6822 combinational faults in the following clock cycles.
-------------------------------------------------------------

Running solver 1: 0.11 s ->  SAT 
  - Faulty comb gates at clock cycle 0: 629 (register_file_i._66_) 
  - Faulty comb gates at clock cycle 1: 
  - Faulty comb gates at clock cycle 2: 
  - Faulty partitions (initial): 
  - Faulty partitions (next): 2 ( 328 ) 4 ( 322 ) 8 ( 320 ) 9 ( 352 )

  Merge together : 2 4
  Merge together : 8 9
  Merged: 4, Remaining: 339

Upon completion, Procedure 1 displays a summary:

Partitioning finished with 1404 partitions.
Write partitioning in file `out/regfile_d3_k1/partitioning-174.json`
=> Procedure 1 verification time: 33.348 s

Procedure 2 -- Check output integrity

Procedure 2 corresponds to CheckIntegrity in Algorithm 1 of our Publication. Similar to Procedure 1, a budget of k faults is divided between faulty partitions and combinational gates for each iteration. When the solver answers SAT, an exploitable fault location has been identified.

Finally, Procedure 2 enumerates all exploitable fault locations and partitions:

Enumerate exploitable faults: 372 379 404 416 434 873 856
Enumerate exploitable partitions: 
Running solver: UNSAT 3.41 s
=> Procedure 2 verification time: 5.67 s

Publication

Tollec, S., Hadžić, V., Nasahl, P., Asavoae, M., Bloem, R., Couroussé, D., Heydemann, K., Jan, M., & Mangard, S. (2024). Fault-Resistant Partitioning of Secure CPUs for System Co-Verification against Faults. IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES), 2024.

Licensing

Unless otherwise noted, everything in this repository is covered by the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE for full text).