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International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design

COSADE 2014: Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design pp 243–260Cite as

ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research

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Abstract

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.

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  • Side-channel analysis
  • Acquisition
  • Synchronization
  • FPGA

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    See the ChipWhisperer sources for details, with additional information in the June 2014 issue of Circuit Cellar and at programmablelogicinpractice.com/?p=143.

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    While the Mega8 is an older device, recently bought ones may be produced on newer processes. If looking for a device produced on older IC process, one will need to confirm the production date via the date code.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to Akashi Satoh for donation of the SAKURA-G used in this work, and Akashi Satoh and Pankaj Rohatgi for donation of the SASEBO-GII and SASEBO-W also used in this work. Thanks to COSADE 2014 reviewers for many insightful comments on initial revision of this papers.

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    Colin O’Flynn & Zhizhang (David) Chen

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O’Flynn, C., Chen, Z.(. (2014). ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research. In: Prouff, E. (eds) Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design. COSADE 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8622. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10175-0_17

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