Kerckhoffs-Compliant Watermarking for Physical Design IP Protection: From Placement to Routing

arXiv:2608.05055 · cs.CR, cs.AR · Submitted 2026-08-05 · Read on arXiv

Andrew B. Kahng, Yiting Liu

cs.CR, cs.AR

Submitted: 2026-08-05

Code: https://github.com/ABKGroup/Watermarking

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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