Paper Info
Title
Teaching Hardware Reverse Engineering: Educational Guidelines and Practical Insights
Abstract
Since underlying hardware components form the basis of trust in virtually any computing system, security failures in hardware pose a devastating threat to our daily lives. Hardware reverse engineering is commonly employed by security engineers in order to identify security vulnerabilities, to detect IP violations, or to conduct very-large-scale integration (VLSI) failure analysis. Even though industry and the scientific community demand experts with expertise in hardware reverse engineering, there is a lack of educational offerings, and existing training is almost entirely unstructured and on the job. To the best of our knowledge, we have developed the first course to systematically teach students hardware reverse engineering based on insights from the fields of educational research, cognitive science, and hardware security. The contribution of our work is threefold: (1) we propose underlying educational guidelines for practice-oriented courses which teach hardware reverse engineering; (2) we develop such a lab course with a special focus on gate-level netlist reverse engineering and provide the required tools to support it; (3) we conduct an educational evaluation of our pilot course. Based on our results, we provide valuable insights on the structure and content necessary to design and teach future courses on hardware reverse engineering.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/TALE.2018.8615270
2018 IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment, and Learning for Engineering (TALE)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
hardware reverse engineering,educational guidelines
Conference
2374-0191
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-6523-7
0
0.34
References 
Authors
14
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Carina Wiesen101.69
Steffen Becker265439.03
Marc Fyrbiak3437.18
Nils Albartus414.08
Malte Elson563.07
Nikol Rummel645657.13
Christof Paar73794442.62