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SoK: From Silicon to Netlist and Beyond Two Decades of Hardware Reverse Engineering Research
Zehra Karadağ, Simon Klix, René Walendy +5
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…
SAMSEM -- A Generic and Scalable Approach for IC Metal Line Segmentation
Christian Gehrmann, Jonas Ricker, Simon Damm +5
In light of globalized hardware supply chains, the assurance of hardware components has gained significant interest, particularly in cryptographic applications and high-stakes scen…
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…
"Make the Voodoo Box Go Bleep Bloop:" Exploring End Users' Understanding and Information Needs Regarding Microchips
Julian Speith, Steffen Becker, Timo Speith +4
Microchips are fundamental components of modern electronic devices, yet they remain opaque to the users who rely on them daily. This opacity, compounded by the complexity of global…
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…
Evil from Within: Machine Learning Backdoors through Hardware Trojans
Alexander Warnecke, Julian Speith, Jan-Niklas Möller +2
Backdoors pose a serious threat to machine learning, as they can compromise the integrity of security-critical systems, such as self-driving cars. While different defenses have bee…
Explainability as a Requirement for Hardware: Introducing Explainable Hardware (XHW)
Timo Speith, Julian Speith, Steffen Becker +3
In today's age of digital technology, ethical concerns regarding computing systems are increasing. While the focus of such concerns currently is on requirements for software, this…
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…