Fault Injection Lab with ChipWhisperer

FA2025

embedded
fault injection
chipwhisperer

We highly recommend that you review the Side-Channel Attacks meeting before this meeting! We will be getting hands-on with the ChipWhisperer Nano!

ChipWhisperer Nano classroom 20-pack

Learning Objectives

  • Explain what fault injection attacks are
  • Explain how a voltage glitching/crowbar attack works
  • Understand how a ChipWhisperer is used to pull off attacks
  • Explain terminology related to glitch attacks
    • Triggers
      • Basic
      • Edge Counter, ADC (CW-Husky)
      • UART (CW-Husky)
      • SAD, or Sum of Absolute Differences (CW-Husky)
    • Glitch parameters
      • ext_offset
      • repeat
      • offset
      • width