Christof Paar

The paper introduces SAMSEM, a generalized and scalable model based on SAM2, which significantly improves metal line segmentation across diverse and unseen integrated circuit (IC) samples.

This paper systematizes two decades of hardware reverse engineering research by analyzing 187 publications, identifying key technical methods and recommending improvements for reproducibility, standardization, and legal clarity.

The paper analyzes existing hardware Trojan datasets to demonstrate that standard cell libraries can be systematically exploited to create visually undetectable, stealthy hardware Trojans, exemplified by a backdoor in a RISC-V core.

The paper introduces PINSIGHT, a novel methodology that rigorously assesses Wi-Fi PIN code inference attacks by separating environmental effects from typing effects, concluding that current state-of-the-art attacks overestimate their real-world threat.

This paper details the design and evolution of a Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) course, providing key lessons for educators teaching rapidly changing technical domains.