Validating the Claim - Defeating HaTCh : Building Malicious IP cores

Abstract: This paper defends the design of hardware Trojan proposed in the paper "Defeating HaTCh: Building Malicious IP Cores" by defining the four critical properties which are required to be satisfied to classify it to belong to class of Deterministic Hardware Trojan. This is to counter the claims of authors of HaTCh in their paper "Comments on Defeating HaTCh".