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09/11/2023
REVERSIM: A Game-Based Approach to Accessing Large Populations for Studying Human Aspects in Hardware Reverse Engineering
Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) is a technique for analyzing Integrat...
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04/17/2023
Evil from Within: Machine Learning Backdoors through Hardware Trojans
Backdoors pose a serious threat to machine learning, as they can comprom...
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03/13/2023
RIS-Jamming: Breaking Key Consistency in Channel Reciprocity-based Key Generation
Channel Reciprocity-based Key Generation (CRKG) exploits reciprocal chan...
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02/28/2023
Expanding Explainability: From Explainable Artificial Intelligence to Explainable Hardware
The increasing opaqueness of AI and its growing influence on our digital...
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02/14/2022
Analog Physical-Layer Relay Attacks with Application to Bluetooth and Phase-Based Ranging
Today, we use smartphones as multi-purpose devices that communicate with...
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12/19/2021
Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Physical Layer Key Generation: Constructive or Destructive?
Physical layer key generation (PKG) is a promising means to provide on-t...
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12/16/2021
Anti-Tamper Radio: System-Level Tamper Detection for Computing Systems
A whole range of attacks becomes possible when adversaries gain physical...
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12/09/2021
How Not to Protect Your IP – An Industry-Wide Break of IEEE 1735 Implementations
Modern hardware systems are composed of a variety of third-party Intelle...
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12/03/2021
IRShield: A Countermeasure Against Adversarial Physical-Layer Wireless Sensing
Wireless radio channels are known to contain information about the surro...
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07/04/2021
Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Wireless Environment Reconfiguration Attacks Based on Fast Software-Controlled Surfaces
The intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is a promising new paradigm in ...
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05/31/2021
An Exploratory Study of Hardware Reverse Engineering Technical and Cognitive Processes
Understanding the internals of Integrated Circuits (ICs), referred to as...
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05/28/2021
ARMORY: Fully Automated and Exhaustive Fault Simulation on ARM-M Binaries
Embedded systems are ubiquitous. However, physical access of users and l...
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05/28/2021
The Unpatchable Silicon: A Full Break of the Bitstream Encryption of Xilinx 7-Series FPGAs
The security of FPGAs is a crucial topic, as any vulnerability within th...
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05/28/2021
SPFA: SFA on Multiple Persistent Faults
For classical fault analysis, a transient fault is required to be inject...
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10/14/2020
Keys from the Sky: A First Exploration of Physical-Layer Security Using Satellite Links
In this paper, we investigate physical-layer security (PLS) methods for ...
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10/13/2020
Intelligent Reflecting Surface-Assisted Wireless Key Generation for Low-Entropy Environments
Physical layer key generation is a promising candidate for cryptographic...
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07/06/2020
An Exploratory Analysis of Microcode as a Building Block for System Defenses
Microcode is an abstraction layer used by modern x86 processors that int...
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10/02/2019
Physical Design Obfuscation of Hardware: A Comprehensive Investigation of Device- and Logic-Level Techniques
The threat of hardware reverse engineering is a growing concern for a la...
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10/01/2019
Interdiction in Practice – Hardware Trojan Against a High-Security USB Flash Drive
As part of the revelations about the NSA activities, the notion of inter...
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10/01/2019
Reverse Engineering x86 Processor Microcode
Microcode is an abstraction layer on top of the physical components of a...
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10/01/2019
Stealthy Opaque Predicates in Hardware – Obfuscating Constant Expressions at Negligible Overhead
Opaque predicates are a well-established fundamental building block for ...
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10/01/2019
Insights into the Mind of a Trojan Designer: The Challenge to Integrate a Trojan into the Bitstream
The threat of inserting hardware Trojans during the design, production, ...
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10/01/2019
Highway to HAL: Open-Sourcing the First Extendable Gate-Level Netlist Reverse Engineering Framework
Since hardware oftentimes serves as the root of trust in our modern inte...
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10/01/2019
Towards Cognitive Obfuscation: Impeding Hardware Reverse Engineering Based on Psychological Insights
In contrast to software reverse engineering, there are hardly any tools ...
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10/01/2019
Teaching Hardware Reverse Engineering: Educational Guidelines and Practical Insights
Since underlying hardware components form the basis of trust in virtuall...
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10/01/2019
Hardware Reverse Engineering: Overview and Open Challenges
Hardware reverse engineering is a universal tool for both legitimate and...
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10/01/2019
A Look at the Dark Side of Hardware Reverse Engineering – A Case Study
A massive threat to the modern and complex IC production chain is the us...
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09/22/2019
Side-Channel Hardware Trojan for Provably-Secure SCA-Protected Implementations
Hardware Trojans have drawn the attention of academia, industry and gove...
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09/22/2019
Temperature-Based Hardware Trojan For Ring-Oscillator-Based TRNGs
True random number generators (TRNGs) are essential components of crypto...
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02/24/2018