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HAS THE WORLD’S FIRST UNHACKABLE CHIP ARRIVED?

By Tafline Laylin

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WHY YOU SHOULD CARE

Because getting hacked sucks.

This OZY series reveals what some of academia’s biggest brains are up to. This
original OZY series reveals what some of academia’s biggest brains are up to.





Ozgur Sinanoglu is obsessed with computer chips — a passion born at age 10 when
his father brought home a Commodore 64. Now 42 and the associate dean of
engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi, Sinanoglu claims that he and his
colleagues have designed an unhackable chip. Given last year’s Meltdown and
Spectre — security flaws that researchers are calling catastrophic because they
could affect nearly every computer chip manufactured in the past 20 years —
producing a chip capable of repelling attacks would restore peace of mind to
everyone from government agencies to private companies. 

Sinanoglu, director of the Design for Excellence Lab at NYU Abu Dhabi, is not
the first to make the claim. Because chips combined in central processing units
(CPUs) are essentially the brains of computers, savvy engineers around the world
have come up with all manner of tricks to keep hackers at bay. And most designs
ultimately join the ranks of “good effort, but not good enough.” In 2010, former
U.S. Army computer specialist Christopher Tarnovsky hacked into Infineon’s
allegedly unhackable SLE66 CL PE chip used in PCs, gaming consoles and e-cards.
Granted, he used a $70,000 electron microscope, tiny conductive needles and acid
to siphon off critical data, but the point was made: not unhackable.

 
        

NYU’s Abu Dhabi-based Ozgur Sinanoglu says his chip is the first to have
security features built into the hardware.

What sets Sinanoglu apart — besides his roughly 20 issued or pending patents —
are his heavyweight backers, from the National Science Foundation to the U.S.
Department of Defense, which is supporting his research through its Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Boasting a 15-page résumé of academic
accomplishments, the Turkish engineer is most concerned with chips fabricated in
foundries, or “fabs,” where designers can’t monitor the manufacturing process.
When chips are fabricated at these third-party facilities, can we really trust
the end result? No, Sinanoglu asserts, making it critical that we add defenses
to make them resistant to theft or tampering by those seeking financial gain,
so-called hacktivists or nefarious state actors.

After analyzing the myriad threats, Sinanoglu and his team added locks to their
chip that are comparable to computer passwords except that they’re made up of a
unique combination of binary code (0’s and 1’s). For their first design,
released in fall 2017, the team added logic, or processing information, to
obscure the design. Only people with a special key could hack into the chip and
replicate, steal or tamper with it. The NYU team issued a public invitation to
hackers to hack away — a move that turned out to be premature. By October, they
realized the logic they’d added gave away information about the key. Sure
enough, the following April, a group from China’s Wuhan University hacked the
chip.

> They unveiled their chip in December 2018, and invited hackers to have at it.
> Since then, Sinanoglu says, no one has found the key.

Humbled but not disheartened, Sinanoglu set to work again. As he recounts what
came next, he becomes visibly animated, his speech speeding up. The team
revisited its process, posing new questions and finding stealthier paths to
protecting the chip. Their conclusion? They needed to strip out all logic and
leave no structural traces. Hackers could identify the chip design, but they
would have no sense of its logic or functionality without the special key of 0’s
and 1’s. The functionality, says Sinanoglu, is buried in the secret key. They
unveiled the subtractive version of their chip in December 2018, and once again
invited hackers to have at it. Since then, Sinanoglu says, no one has found the
key.

 


As steeped as he is in cybersecurity now, Sinanoglu started on a different
course. As a Ph.D. student in computer engineering at the University of
California, San Diego, he was keenly interested in the environmental factors and
manufacturing defects that affect chip functionality. After graduating in 2004,
he took a job with Qualcomm, a huge multinational chipmaker, as a senior design
and test engineer. Then, in 2006, with a new baby and wishing to be closer to
his family in Turkey, he accepted an offer to teach computer science at Kuwait
University. That gig ended in 2010 with a new job that would change the
trajectory of Sinanoglu’s career.

Hired as a visiting assistant professor under the guidance of Ramesh Karri, a
professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU’s Tandon School of
Engineering, Sinanoglu got hooked on the challenge of staying ahead of bad
actors with malicious intent. “It’s a whole different game,” he says, one that
requires constantly outpacing hackers’ creativity and intelligence. “It’s
actually a more fun game,” he’s quick to add with a grin.

 
        
  

They like staying ahead of the bad guys: Ozgur Sinanoglu (center front) with his
team at NYU Abu Dhabi’s Design for Excellence Lab. 

Karri says that most people in cybersecurity — himself included — are “a little
more cautious” than his colleagues about claiming the existence of an unhackable
chip. But “if anybody can make one, it’s Ozgur and JV,” he says, referring to
Jeyavijayan “JV” Rajendran, an assistant professor of electrical and computer
engineering at Texas A&M University who’s working closely with Sinanoglu on the
DARPA project. But Dan Goldberg, founder of Castlerock Cyber Security and an
information security consultant in Virginia, expresses skepticism that anything
“as complex as a microprocessor or general purpose computing device” can be
truly unhackable.

For starters, Goldberg worries about key discipline: Who has access to the key
and what happens when that access is revoked? Could a spurned employee exact
revenge? What if the key is lost? Goldberg’s approach is to design networks and
systems that follow a “defense in-depth” model. “If a malicious actor gets
access to one aspect of the system, they don’t immediately have access to
everything,” he explains. Sinanoglu acknowledges that, for now, they can only
secure their chip at the hardware layer, but when the hardware is compromised,
the whole system is compromised — which is why he considers his team’s latest
iteration the unhackable ideal he has been working toward for most of his life.

Sinanoglu clearly recalls the day in Izmir when his father, a petroleum
engineer, presented him with that ancient 8-bit home computer. His younger
brother, Yigit, who works as a product control manager in Switzerland, says
Ozgur was glued to the device, and his competitive drive (nurtured by a natural
aptitude for sports) pushed him to master every detail. “Whatever he was doing,
he wanted to beat the other guys,” Yigit recalls. The “other guys” now in his
sights are bad actors in the chip business.

Assuming his new design withstands scrutiny, Sinanoglu plans to deploy the
technology more widely, making it both scalable and practical. Can this
competitive computer nerd thwart the world’s hackers? The jury’s still out, but
listening to him, it’s easy to believe the future of chip security is now.

OZY’S 5 QUESTIONS WITH OZGUR SINANOGLU

 * What’s a book that changed your life? I would not say it changed my life, but
   it did change my perspective of things: Sapiens, by [Yuval Noah] Harari
 * What do you worry about? Letting down those who put their trust in me.
 * What’s the one thing you can’t live without? My family.
 * Who’s your hero? My wife, who made me the person I am.
 * What’s one item on your bucket list? Attending a major football event
   (European or World Cup).

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The Daily Dose April 5, 2019

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