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most citedThe Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs

39 citations · 110 across the 6 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Patching FPGAs: The Security Implications of Bitstream Modifications

Endres Puschner, Maik Ender, Steffen Becker +1

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are known for their reprogrammability that allows for post-manufacture circuitry changes. Nowadays, they are integral to a variety of systems…

cs.CR2024

JustSTART: How to Find an RSA Authentication Bypass on Xilinx UltraScale(+) with Fuzzing

Maik Ender, Felix Hahn, Marc Fyrbiak +2

Fuzzing is a well-established technique in the software domain to uncover bugs and vulnerabilities. Yet, applications of fuzzing for security vulnerabilities in hardware systems ar…

cs.CR2021★ 9 cited

How Not to Protect Your IP -- An Industry-Wide Break of IEEE 1735 Implementations

Julian Speith, Florian Schweins, Maik Ender +3

Modern hardware systems are composed of a variety of third-party Intellectual Property (IP) cores to implement their overall functionality. Since hardware design is a globalized pr…

cs.CR2021★ 39 cited

The Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs

Maik Ender, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar

The security of FPGAs is a crucial topic, as any vulnerability within the hardware can have severe consequences, if they are used in a secure design. Since FPGA designs are encoded…

cs.CR2019★ 35 cited

Insights into the Mind of a Trojan Designer: The Challenge to Integrate a Trojan into the Bitstream

Maik Ender, Pawel Swierczynski, Sebastian Wallat +3

The threat of inserting hardware Trojans during the design, production, or in-field poses a danger for integrated circuits in real-world applications. A particular critical case of…

cs.CR2019★ 23 cited

Highway to HAL: Open-Sourcing the First Extendable Gate-Level Netlist Reverse Engineering Framework

Sebastian Wallat, Nils Albartus, Steffen Becker +6

Since hardware oftentimes serves as the root of trust in our modern interconnected world, malicious hardware manipulations constitute a ubiquitous threat in the context of the Inte…