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REVERSIM: An Open-Source Environment for the Controlled Study of Human Aspects in Hardware Reverse Engineering
Steffen Becker, René Walendy, Markus Weber +3
Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) is a technique for analyzing integrated circuits. Experts employ HRE for security-critical tasks, like detecting Trojans or intellectual property…
An Exploratory Study of Hardware Reverse Engineering Technical and Cognitive Processes
Steffen Becker, Carina Wiesen, Nils Albartus +2
Understanding the internals of Integrated Circuits (ICs), referred to as Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE), is of interest to both legitimate and malicious parties. HRE is a compl…
Promoting the Acquisition of Hardware Reverse Engineering Skills
Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, Nils Albartus Christof Paar +1
This full research paper focuses on skill acquisition in Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) - an important field of cyber security. HRE is a prevalent technique routinely employed…
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…
Towards Cognitive Obfuscation: Impeding Hardware Reverse Engineering Based on Psychological Insights
Carina Wiesen, Nils Albartus, Max Hoffmann +5
In contrast to software reverse engineering, there are hardly any tools available that support hardware reversing. Therefore, the reversing process is conducted by human analysts c…
Teaching Hardware Reverse Engineering: Educational Guidelines and Practical Insights
Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, Marc Fyrbiak +4
Since underlying hardware components form the basis of trust in virtually any computing system, security failures in hardware pose a devastating threat to our daily lives. Hardware…