ReverSim is an open-source environment for the browser, originally developed at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy (MPI-SP) to study human aspects in hardware reverse engineering.
Important
Full source code and Docker images will be made available in this repository in the next days.
You can try the most recent development version of ReverSim on our live demo website.
If you use ReverSim in an academic context, please cite our paper as follows:
@inproceedings{2025:Becker:ReverSim,
title = {{ReverSim:} {A} Game-Based Environment to Study Human Aspects in Hardware Reverse Engineering},
shorttitle = {{ReverSim}},
author = {Steffen Becker and Ren{\'{e}} Walendy and Markus Weber and Carina Wiesen and Nikol Rummel and Christof Paar},
year = 2025,
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
location = {Yokohama, Japan},
publisher = {{ACM}},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
series = {CHI '25},
doi = {10.1145/3706598.3714160},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714160}
}The ReverSim source code and level library are licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, Version 3 (AGPL-3.0). Please refer to the license file for further information.
Third-party contributions to the source code and the Level Library are highly encouraged.