ChipWhisperer active
Open-source toolchain for side-channel power analysis and fault injection.
ChipWhisperer is my open-source hardware and software platform for research into side-channel power analysis and fault injection: the family of well-known attacks that can break even a perfect crypto implementation by watching what the chip does rather than what it computes. I’ve talked about it since 2013, starting with a Black Hat USA talk on low-cost power analysis techniques.
Hardware related to ChipWhisperer is now sold through NewAE Technology Inc., but it remains a open-source tool, and it has been widely used in both the academic and the industrial research community. A Google Scholar search turns up a few hundred papers that use it, which is a good way to find work built on it.
Where to start
- The ChipWhisperer repository and ChipWhisperer documentation are the main sites now. Older sites (wiki & rtfm page) are no longer supported and mostly removed.
- The posts and talks below, newest first.
Posts & pages · 6
Talks & papers · 8
- 2024 Academia or Industry: Challenges of Building Open-Source Research Tools
- 2023 Advanced Hardware Hacking: Power Analysis & Fault Injection with the ChipWhisperer
- 2023 Adventures of My Oven (Pinocchio) with ChipWhisperer
- 2021 Building the ChipWhisperer-Husky: Upgraded Design
- 2019 ChipWhisperer workshop
- 2015 ChipWhisperer — open-source power analysis and glitching
- 2014 Power Analysis and Clock Glitching with the Open-Source ChipWhisperer Platform
- 2014 Chipwhisperer: An open-source platform for hardware embedded security research