Agenda

The workshop will begin at 09.30 am CET on January 24, 2023 and conclude around 5 pm CET on January 25, 2023 at the latest. The program comprises talks given by our invited speakers, complemented by socializing opportunities in the form of coffee and lunch breaks on both days as well as a dinner on January 24, 2023.

Registration & Welcome
09.30 - 10.30	Registration Location: Beckmannshof @ Ruhr University Bochum
10.30 - 11.00	Opening Remarks - A Journey Through Hardware Security Christof Paar, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), Germany
Rapid Research Rendezvous
11.00 - 11.30	Rapid Research Rendezvous 1 (incl. Coffee)
Session 1: Trust & Assurance (Chair: Christof Paar)
11.30 - 11.50	The Physical Verification Challenge for IoT-Security Bernhard Lippmann, Infineon, Germany
11.50 - 12.10	Deep Learning-based Analysis of Microscopic IC Images for Hardware Assurance Cheng Deruo, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
12.10 - 12.30	Hardware Trust Through Physical Inspection Matthias Ludwig, Infineon, Germany
Lunch
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch Break
Session 2: Sample Preparation & Imaging (Chair: Bernhard Lippmann)
13.30 - 13.50	Homogeneous Delayering - a Key Challenge for Successful Reverse Engineering Nicola Kovac, Fraunhofer EMFT, Germany
13.50 - 14.10	ZEISS MultiSEM: towards Full Chip Scanning in Semiconductor Reverse Engineering Stephan Nickell, Carl Zeiss MultiSEM GmbH, Germany
14.10 - 14.30	Bringing hardware reverse engineering to the 3rd dimension Martin Rasche, Raith GmbH, Dortmund, Germany
Rapid Research Rendezvous
14.30 - 15.00	Rapid Research Rendezvous 2 (incl. Coffee)
Session 3: Netlist Analysis (Chair: Georg Sigl)
15.00 - 15.10	HAL - A Modular Framework for Netlist Reverse Engineering Julian Speith, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), Germany
15.10 - 15.30	A Structured Approach to FPGA Reverse Engineering Nils Albartus, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), Germany
15.30 - 15.50	GNN-RE: Graph Neural Networks for Reverse Engineering of Gate-Level Netlists Lilas Alrahis, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), UAE
15.50 - 16.10	Graph Neural Network for Circuit Netlist Analysis Lin Tong, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Discussions
16.30 - 18.00	Discussion Tables Location: MC
Dinner
18.00 - End	Dinner Location: Q-West

Session 4: Evaluation & Open-Source Silicon (Chair: Stephan Nickell)
09:40 - 10:00	Mastering RE on Modern Chips. Essential Milestones. Practical Recommendations Silke Christiansen, Fraunhofer IKTS, Germany Olena Kulyk, REATISS, Ukraine
10.00 - 10.20	The Perfect Reverse Engineering Result - Truth or Myth Michaela Brunner, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany Johanna Baehr, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany
10.20 - 10.40	Open Source T&M for Hardware Reverse Engineering Andrew D. Zonenberg, IOActive, USA
10.40 - 11.00	Using Reverse Engineering Techniques to Build a Secure Open-Source IC Leonid Azriel, Technion, Israel
Coffee
11.00 - 11.30	Coffee Break
Keynote
11.30 - 12.30	Hardware Reverse Engineering: A Vital Necessity Facing Tremendous Challenges Olivier Thomas, Texplained, France
Lunch
12.30 - 13.30	Lunch Break
Session 5: Selected Aspects of HRE (Chair: Jürgen Frinken)
13.30 - 13.50	The Human Factor in HRE: an Interdisciplinary Approach to Hardware Security Steffen Becker, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany René Walendy, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany
13.50 - 14.10	No Need for Reverse Engineering - Machine Learning Will Do It for Us Jean-Pierre Seifert, Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin), Germany
14.10 - 14.30	Design for Security Avi Mendelson, Technion, Israel
Coffee
14.30 - 15.00	Coffee Break
Session 6: Hardware Trojans (Chair: Jean-Pierre Seifert)
15.00 - 15.20	Fabrication-time Insertion of Hardware Trojan Horses Samuel Pagliarini, Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), Estonia
15.20 - 15.40	Red Team vs. Blue Team: A Real-World Hardware Trojan Detection Case Study Across Four Modern CMOS Technology Generations Endres Puschner, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), Germany Steffen Becker, Ruhr University Bochum (RUB), Germany
15.40 - 16.00	Open Source HW and Hardware Trojans: a reverse engineering perspective Alexander Hepp, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany Johanna Baehr, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany
16.00 - 16.10	Introduction to CRESS Alexander Hepp, Technische Universität München (TUM), Germany Matthias Ludwig, Infineon, Germany
Farewell
16.15 - 16.30	Closing Remarks Christof Paar, Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP), Germany