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most citedPhysical Design Obfuscation of Hardware: A Comprehensive Investigation of Device- and Logic-Level Techniques

111 citations · 446 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cs.CR20221 cited

Analog Physical-Layer Relay Attacks with Application to Bluetooth and Phase-Based Ranging

Paul Staat, Kai Jansen, Christian Zenger +2

Today, we use smartphones as multi-purpose devices that communicate with their environment to implement context-aware services, including asset tracking, indoor localization, conta…

cs.CR20217 cited

Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Wireless Environment Reconfiguration Attacks Based on Fast Software-Controlled Surfaces

Paul Staat, Harald Elders-Boll, Markus Heinrichs +2

The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising new paradigm in wireless communications for meeting the growing connectivity demands in next-generation mobile networks. IRS…

cs.CR20213 cited

An Exploratory Study of Hardware Reverse Engineering Technical and Cognitive Processes

Steffen Becker, Carina Wiesen, Nils Albartus +2

Understanding the internals of Integrated Circuits (ICs), referred to as Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE), is of interest to both legitimate and malicious parties. HRE is a compl…

cs.CR20212 cited

ARMORY: Fully Automated and Exhaustive Fault Simulation on ARM-M Binaries

Max Hoffmann, Falk Schellenberg, Christof Paar

Embedded systems are ubiquitous. However, physical access of users and likewise attackers makes them often threatened by fault attacks: a single fault during the computation of a c…

cs.CR202139 cited

The Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs

Maik Ender, Amir Moradi, Christof Paar

The security of FPGAs is a crucial topic, as any vulnerability within the hardware can have severe consequences, if they are used in a secure design. Since FPGA designs are encoded…

cs.CR20216 cited

Promoting the Acquisition of Hardware Reverse Engineering Skills

Carina Wiesen, Steffen Becker, Nils Albartus Christof Paar +1

This full research paper focuses on skill acquisition in Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) - an important field of cyber security. HRE is a prevalent technique routinely employed…