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posted by janrinok on Saturday March 22 2014, @01:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the for-good-or-evil-which-will-we-choose dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

"ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research. (PDF)

Partial quote from 1st page (1/18):

'This paper introduces a complete side channel analysis toolbox inclusive of the analog capture hardware, target device, capture software, and analysis software. The highly modular design allows use of the hardware and software with a variety of existing systems. The hardware uses a synchronous capture method which greatly reduces the required sample rate, while also reducing the data storage requirement and improving synchronization of traces. The synchronous nature of the hardware lends itself to fault injection, and a module to generate glitches of programmable width is also provided. The entire design (hardware and software) is open-source, and maintained in a publicly available repository. Several long example capture traces are provided for researchers looking to evaluate standard cryptographic implementations.'"

[Ed's Note: If you haven't already got a PDF reader built-in to your browser, the submitter suggests the following link: http://view.samurajdata.se/. I do not take any responsibility for this software.]

 
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  • (Score: 1) by Schafer2 on Saturday March 22 2014, @08:05PM

    by Schafer2 (348) on Saturday March 22 2014, @08:05PM (#19843)
    Doh! I neglected to change the title from "Tempest", which I originally thought this was about but is not. TEMPEST [wikipedia.org] was the NSA program to monitor systems via similar indirect means (and to protect systems from such monitoring). However, this was more often about getting a view of the monitor and keystrokes of a system via an antenna situated nearby, and not about gaining side information for cryptographic attacks.