ReverSim: An Open-Source Environment for the Controlled Study of Human Aspects in Hardware Reverse Engineering

要旨

Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) is a technique for analyzing integrated circuits. Experts employ HRE for security-critical tasks, like detecting Trojans or intellectual property violations, relying not only on their experience and customized tools but also on their cognitive abilities. In this work, we introduce ReverSim, a software environment that models key HRE subprocesses and integrates standardized cognitive tests. ReverSim enables quantitative studies with easier-to-recruit non-experts to uncover cognitive factors relevant to HRE. We empirically evaluated ReverSim in three studies. Semi-structured interviews with 14 HRE professionals confirmed its comparability to real-world HRE processes. Two online user studies with 170 novices and intermediates revealed effective differentiation of participant performance across a spectrum of difficulties, and correlations between participants’ cognitive processing speed and task performance. ReverSim is available as open-source software, providing a robust platform for controlled experiments to assess cognitive processes in HRE, potentially opening new avenues for hardware protection.

著者
Steffen Becker
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
René Walendy
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Markus Weber
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Carina Wiesen
Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Nikol Rummel
Ruhr-Universität, Bochum, Germany
Christof Paar
Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum, Germany
DOI

10.1145/3706598.3714160

論文URL

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3714160

動画

会議: CHI 2025

The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (https://chi2025.acm.org/)

セッション: HCI Method Considerations

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2025-04-29 18:00:00
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