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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…
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…
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…