DoD Microelectronics: Field Programmable Gate Array Level of Assurance 1 Best Practices

Authors	National Security Agency
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Type	techreport
Year	2024
Citekey	`nsa2024fpga`

Published in	National Security Agency
Publisher	National Security Agency
Series	NSA Cybersecurity Technical Report
Number in series	U/OO/156781-24
Issue	U/OO/156781-24

Abstract	No abstract is printed on this document. It carries a "Purpose" section, which describes NSA's cybersecurity mission rather than the report, and an "Executive summary", which begins "In support of securing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based systems from adversary influence during the manufacturing process, this report outlines the categories of relevant threats and the best practices for mitigating them at Level of Assurance 1 (LoA1)." That summary is not an abstract and should not be harvested as one. The same decision is already recorded on `greenarrays2011g144a12`, whose settle reads "No abstract is printed on the document. Where one is wanted, the executive summary on its own cover would have to be quoted deliberately rather than harvested." Agency and vendor technical reports of this kind carry executive summaries as a matter of house style; treating them as abstracts would put a document's marketing or mission framing into a field that means something else. Established by reading leaves 1-4 of the copy, not inferred from the entry type.

Abstract

No abstract is printed on this document. It carries a "Purpose" section, which describes NSA's cybersecurity mission rather than the report, and an "Executive summary", which begins "In support of securing Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based systems from adversary influence during the manufacturing process, this report outlines the categories of relevant threats and the best practices for mitigating them at Level of Assurance 1 (LoA1)." That summary is not an abstract and should not be harvested as one. The same decision is already recorded on `greenarrays2011g144a12`, whose settle reads "No abstract is printed on the document. Where one is wanted, the executive summary on its own cover would have to be quoted deliberately rather than harvested." Agency and vendor technical reports of this kind carry executive summaries as a matter of house style; treating them as abstracts would put a document's marketing or mission framing into a field that means something else. Established by reading leaves 1-4 of the copy, not inferred from the entry type.

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  title        = {DoD Microelectronics: Field Programmable Gate Array Level of Assurance 1 Best Practices},
  author       = {National Security Agency},
  year         = {2024},
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  publisher    = {National Security Agency},
  series       = {NSA Cybersecurity Technical Report},
  number       = {U/OO/156781-24},
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