Re:Hardware Reverse Engineering Course
by userbinator on Saturday August 22, 2015 @01:26AM
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"rpi.edu" is the domain for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is unrelated to the Raspberry Pi. That had me puzzled for a moment... although I suppose RE'ing one of those would be interesting to do in a course.
Re:Hardware Reverse Engineering Course
by azonenberg on Sunday August 23, 2015 @05:27PM
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We tried to record a few lectures but had technical difficulties with audio quality, they were totally garbage so they didn't get posted.
To my knowledge this is the only course of its kind that has ever been taught, I had to write all of the slides from scratch since I couldn't find any lecture notes to base mine on.
Re:Hardware Reverse Engineering Course
by zxexz on Saturday August 22, 2015 @08:27PM
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I would be interested in this as well. Especially with video lectures. Did you manage to find anything? I haven't managed to except for some one-off intros.
Re:Hardware Reverse Engineering Course
by azonenberg on Sunday August 23, 2015 @05:25PM
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You got U4, J3, P2, U2 right.
U5 was a ROT13(SCTN) but your answer is close enough to get credit.
U13 was a ROT13(SGQV HFO pbagebyyre), you can tell since it connects to J2. I don't recall what U1 is but you can ask marshallh (retroactive.be) since he's the guy who designed the board.
To my knowledge this is the only course of its kind that has ever been taught, I had to write all of the slides from scratch since I couldn't find any lecture notes to base mine on.
Sadly I've graduated and moved on to other things, but am still actively working in the field (see my recent conference talk https://recon.cx/2015/slides/recon2015-18-andrew-zonenberg-F...)
H4 vf n QENZ; W3 vf na FQ pneq; C2 ybbxf yvxr WGNT; H2 vf ANAQ synfu; H5 vf na nccyvpngvba cebprffbe; H13 vf n iert; abg fher jung H1 vf
U5 was a ROT13(SCTN) but your answer is close enough to get credit.
U13 was a ROT13(SGQV HFO pbagebyyre), you can tell since it connects to J2. I don't recall what U1 is but you can ask marshallh (retroactive.be) since he's the guy who designed the board.
Source: I'm the instructor and wrote the quiz