6 papers
Hardware Trojans from Invisible Inversions: On the Trojanizability of Standard Cell Libraries
Kolja Dorschel, René Walendy, Lukas Plätz +3
At S&P 2023, Puschner et al. made a valuable dataset for hardware Trojan detection research publicly available. It contains a complete set of Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) ima…
Designing a Hardware Reverse Engineering Course: Lessons from Eight Years in a Rapidly Evolving Tech Domain
Zehra KaradaÄ, René Walendy, Carina Wiesen +3
Integrated Circuits (ICs) are omnipresent, yet their globalized manufacturing process remains vulnerable to supply chain threats. Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) is essential fo…
SoK: From Silicon to Netlist and Beyond Two Decades of Hardware Reverse Engineering Research
Zehra Karadağ, Zehra KaradaÄ, Simon Klix +7
Hardware serves as the root of trust in modern computing systems, making Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) essential for security assurancefrom design verification and supply-c…
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…
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 Evidence-Based Curriculum Initiative for Hardware Reverse Engineering Education
René Walendy, Markus Weber, Steffen Becker +2
The increasing importance of supply chain security for digital devices -- from consumer electronics to critical infrastructure -- has created a high demand for skilled cybersecurit…