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most citedSpatial-Domain Wireless Jamming with Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces

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cs.CY2026

Designing a Hardware Reverse Engineering Course: Lessons from Eight Years in a Rapidly Evolving Tech Domain

Zehra Karadağ, 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…

cs.CR2026

PINsight: Systematic Threat Assessment of Cross-Domain Wi-Fi-based PIN Inference

Johannes Kortz, Christof Paar, Christian Zenger +1

Wi-Fi signals can be repurposed as radar-like sensors, exposing a side channel for inferring sensitive information. A particularly concerning example is PIN inference, where an att…

cs.CR2026

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…

cs.CR2026

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…

cs.CR2025

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…

cs.CR2025

Talking to the Airgap: Exploiting Radio-Less Embedded Devices as Radio Receivers

Paul Staat, Daniel Davidovich, Christof Paar

Physical isolation from external networks - an airgap - aims to minimize exposure to remote attacks. Yet capable adversaries still achieve code execution on air-gapped systems, and…