Systems and methods for intellectual property-secured, remote debugging

A method for debugging an integrated circuit device via a debug lab, comprising:

• verifying, at the debug lab, a request for a remote debug process of an integrated circuit device located at a remote site and received from an interface at the remote site;
• authenticating, at the debug lab, the request for the remote debug process;
• polling, at the debug lab, for a status of the remote debug process;
• receiving, at the debug lab, the status of the remote debug process, wherein the status comprises an encrypted session key generated by the integrated circuit device and an initialized integrity counter;
• decrypting, at the debug lab, the encrypted session key to generate a session key;
• verifying that the session key matches an expected session key;
• and
• in response to the session key matching the expected session key, transmitting an encrypted acknowledgement to the integrated circuit device including the initialized integrity counter to initiate the remote debug process.

A relay server that enables a remote debug session between an integrated circuit device and a debug lab via communication comprising:

• relaying a request for the remote debug session generated by the integrated circuit device to the debug lab;
• relaying an encrypted session key generated by the integrated circuit device to the debug lab;
• in response to relaying the encrypted session key, relaying an encrypted acknowledgement from the debug lab to the integrated circuit device, wherein the encrypted acknowledgement comprises verification of successful decryption of the encrypted session key;
• and
• relaying an encrypted message from the integrated circuit device to the debug lab, from the debug lab to the integrated circuit device, or a combination thereof.