Logic Locking Conquest 2019

Logic Locking is a revolutionary technique for protecting Intellectual Property of Integrated Circuits from myriad security threats, such as reverse engineering, overbuilding, piracy, and hardware Trojan insertion. In this student-led Logic Locking Conquest Challenge, participants will attempt to attack designs locked with state-of-the-art methods. Participants will be provided with a selection of locked combinational and sequential designs (netlists) with varying complexity and key sizes.

This competition is open to students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate degree programs from around the world.

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Update 8/13: A warm-up locked combinational netlist challenge is now available to download!

Update 8/23: Register now for access to the combinational netlist challenges!

Update 8/28: A warm-up for locked sequential netlist challenge is now available to download!

Update 10/7: Bios of Final Round Judges now online!

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Email csaw-logiclocking@nyu.edu if you have any issues

• Competition launches: August 2019
  • Organizers will provide registered teams a link to download the blue teams' locked designs as the round progresses
• Qualifying Round deadline: 7 October 2019
  • Red teams submit their reports on their attack approaches, including the tools used and a discussion of the results
  • Final submission details TBD
• Invitations to Finals sent out by 12 October 2019
  • Scores are tallied and the top teams are invited to participate in the Finals (total number of teams is TBD)
• Finals: 8 November 2019 at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
  • Top teams present their attacks and defenses to a panel of judges that will include subject experts from US Government agencies, semiconductor companies, and defense contractors

NYU Center for Cybersecurity will support travel to the finals and offer monetary awards.