We report our experience with a novel course on binary reverse engineering, a university computer science course that was offered at the second-year level to both computer science majors as well as non-majors, with minimal prerequisites. While reverse ...

This paper describes a series of homework assignments, labs, and a project developed to teach AVR assembly language as part of a sophomore-level Computer Organization course. At the culmination of this module, students built a handheld arcade machine ...

Cryptographic primitives need high-speed implementations that are also resistant to side channel attacks. The absolute control over instructions and registers that such implementations demand makes assembly language programming a necessity. In this ...

Students often encounter assembly language during the course of their education as part of learning about the low-level operation of computer systems. While there are many assembly languages ranging from simple to complex, x86-64 is widely used in ...

TetrisOS and BreakoutOS are projects developed for a sophomore-level computer organization course. Each project teaches a wide range of x86 assembly language topics, including iteration, function calls, data storage, segmentation, communication with ...

We present MIPSUnit, a unit test framework for MIPS assembly. MIPSUnit's primary benefit is that it reduces the time needed to grade assembly language assignments. It also provides a time-efficient means for providing students additional testing ...

'Hardware aliasing' classically arises when a processor through failure or design has fewer bits than required to address each memory location uniquely, and also - nowadays - in the context of homomorphically encrypted computing. In such contexts, ...

In this paper, we describe a novel platform for Computer Science and Engineering education that helps students to connect software concepts with the underlying hardware. Students often learn about programming languages, computer architecture, assembly ...

Dynamic binary translation frameworks enable late modifications of binary programs. The binary translator needs to generate dynamic code at runtime for trampolines, translated control flow instructions, additional runtime checks, and lookups. The code ...

This workshop will introduce a set of hands-on laboratory activities appropriate for a first Computer Organization course. Participants will work with real equipment: first implementing elementary digital circuits with TTL logic chips, and then ...

Documentation and collaboration are critical elements for malware analysis, however current tool support falls short of enabling a means for these activities in a low level domain. An initial survey not only confirms how important these elements are, ...

A new teaching method----“realization of goal” is proposed considering the characteristics of the assembly language course with being hard to understand and needing hardware theory. According to the method, classroom teaching is combined with autonomic ...

This paper presents a virtual machine simulator with a memory trace facility having two unique features. First, the machine is designed to illustrate the translation from C/C++ to assembly language and from thence to machine language. Instead of the ...

Web rootkits Trojan, which can download virus from remote control server and hide in BIOS, is very harmful to web security. Reverse assembly analysis on web rootkit Trojan can help virus analyzer to trace malicious code and find some immunization ...

Assembly language programming courses inevitably include the need to assess programs submitted by the students. However, the task of grading solutions to student programming exercises is laborious. This paper describes a system for the automatic ...

Over the past 25 years, we've made great advances in tooling, technologies, and techniques that make software design more concrete. But design still requires careful thought.

Over the past 25 years, we've made great advances in tooling, technologies, and techniques that make software design more concrete. But design still requires careful thought.

This article defines two-way coupled finite automata. Two-way coupled finite automaton enable to make a translation from input language to output language and from output language to input language too. There is discussed deterministic parsing by using ...

This paper describes an interactive implementation of a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) simulator for interpreting Java bytecodes created either from the Java compiler or from an assembler such as Jasmin. Designed for ease of use, the simulator provides ...