5 papers
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…
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…
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…