• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.1225-1231
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• 2018

FPGA-based system development is being developed as a form of outsourcing that shortens the development time and reduces the cost. Through the process, the risk of letting the hardware Trojan, which causes malfunctions, seep into the system also increases. Various detection methods are proposed for the issue; however, such type of hardware Trojans is inserted by modifying a bitstream directly and therefore, it is hard to detect with the suggested methods. To detect the type of hardware Trojans, it is essential to reverse-engineer the electric circuit implemented by bitstream to a distinguishable level. Specifically, it is important to reverse-engineer the routing information of the circuit that can identify the input-output flow of the signal. In this paper, we analyze the BIL bitstream reverse-engineering tool-chain that uses the algorithm, which retrieves the routing information from FPGA bitstream, and suggest the method to improve the tool-chain.