TrojanWhisper: Evaluating Pre-Trained LLMs to Detect and Localize Hardware Trojans Article

Faruque, Md Omar, Jamieson, Peter, Patooghy, Ahmad et al. (2026). TrojanWhisper: Evaluating Pre-Trained LLMs to Detect and Localize Hardware Trojans . IEEE ACCESS, 14 30965-30983. 10.1109/ACCESS.2026.3663556

Open Access

cited authors

  • Faruque, Md Omar; Jamieson, Peter; Patooghy, Ahmad; Badawy, Abdel-Hameed A

authors

publication date

  • January 1, 2026

published in

keywords

  • Codes
  • Computer Science
  • Computer Science, Information Systems
  • Engineering
  • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
  • Engines
  • Hardware security
  • Hardware trojans
  • Large language models
  • Manuals
  • Payloads
  • Perturbation methods
  • RTL security
  • Register transfer level
  • Science & Technology
  • Taxonomy
  • Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Trojan horses
  • code obfuscation
  • hardware security
  • large language models
  • signature-based detection
  • trojan detection
  • trojan localization

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

publisher

  • IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

start page

  • 30965

end page

  • 30983

volume

  • 14