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most citedAn Evidence-Based Curriculum Initiative for Hardware Reverse Engineering Education

4 citations · 5 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

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

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.CY2024★ 4 cited

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…

cs.HC2024★ 1 cited

I see an IC: A Mixed-Methods Approach to Study Human Problem-Solving Processes in Hardware Reverse Engineering

René Walendy, Markus Weber, Jingjie Li +7

Trust in digital systems depends on secure hardware, often assured through Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE). This work develops methods for investigating human problem-solving pr…

cs.CR2023

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…