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HAL -- An Open-Source Framework for Gate-Level Netlist Analysis
Julian Speith, Jörn Langheinrich, Marc Fyrbiak +7
HAL is an open-source framework for gate-level netlist analysis, an integral step in hardware reverse engineering. It provides analysts with an interactive GUI, an extensible plugi…
Stealing Maggie's Secrets -- On the Challenges of IP Theft Through FPGA Reverse Engineering
Simon Klix, Nils Albartus, Julian Speith +9
Intellectual Property (IP) theft is a cause of major financial and reputational damage, reportedly in the range of hundreds of billions of dollars annually in the U.S. alone. Field…
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…