ChipWhisperer® by NewAE Technology Inc.
Welcome to ChipWhisperer - the complete open-source toolchain for side-channel power analysis and glitching attacks. This is the main landing page for ChipWhisperer. ChipWhisperer has been presented at conferences such as DEFCON and Blackhat, had a successful Kickstarter (that delivered ahead of schedule), and placed 2nd place in the first annual Hackaday Prize. ChipWhisperer has been used in a number of academic articles, and is featured in the Car Hacking Handbook. Portions of the design have even been used by Los Alamos Labs for an electron accelerator. You can see a full list of references on the Press page.
ChipWhisperer is maintained by NewAE Technology Inc., which sells a combination of open-source hardware, supporting tools, training, and consulting services. ChipWhisperer is trademark of NewAE Technology Inc., registered in the US, Europe, and China. This means only NewAE can sell official products under the ChipWhisperer name, and was done to ensure products meet Quality Control Guidelines, as these fairly complex products require good testing to ensure you don't have a frustrating experience.
Beyond supporting just the ChipWhisperer project, this wiki is now growing towards the objective of offering a complete reference on embedded security.
NOTE: ChipWhisperer V5 is here! CW4 tutorials are available via links on the wiki tutorial pages. CW4 info is available at CW4
NOTE: Account creation is disabled on this wiki currently due to spam. Please contact us at wiki@newae.com if you would like to contribute.
Getting Started
Confused on where to begin? If you're new to this area, see the V5:Getting Started page, which details how you can get involved in side-channel power analysis. From there you can see the hardware documentation (linked below), or take one of the Training Courses.
If you're stuck, you can also get help on the Discussion Forum.
Hardware Documentation
Software Documentation
ChipWhisperer is an open-source project. All of the source code is available from the Git Repository. Documentation is available on our Read the Docs page.
For more information about the software releases, see Releases or the installation instructions.
Sample Projects and Tutorials
Tutorials are implemented using Jupyter Notebooks, available in our chipwhisperer-jupyter submodule. You can also find completed versions of the tutorials on Read the Docs.
Example Attacks / Other
While ChipWhisperer started as a side-channel power analysis platform, it has grown to be useful in other attack types. This section is designed to show you a wide variety of attacks on embedded systems, to give you an idea of what is required for building secure embedded systems. These are held on the page Embedded Attacks.
In 2016, ChipWhisperer was used as part of the CHES2016 CTF challenge. See details of the event on the CHES2016 CTF page.
See what ChipWhisperer has been used for in the "real world" by reading some Academic Papers about research using ChipWhisperer.
Recent/Upcoming Events
Upcomming Events:
- NewAE is not physically attending any events in 2020. As of August 2020 this wiki is deprecated, future announcements will be on newae.com
These are some past events that were attended by someone from NewAE:
- Embedded World 2020: Exhibit Booth (we were there as a hold-out even with cancellations!)
- Arm TechCon 2019: Exhibit booth!
- HardwareSecurity.training event in November - California 4-day training.
- Embedded World 2019: Exhibit Booth
- Black Hat USA 2018: Training, Arsenal Demo
- CHES 2018: Sponsor with exhibit booth
- HardwareSecurity.training event in April - Maryland 4-day training.
- Embedded World 2018: Exhibit Booth
- HardwareSecurity.training event on November 6-9th in San Francisco, running security training
- CHES 2017: Gold sponsor with exhibit booth
- Blackhat USA 2017 (Hands-on Power Analysis & Glitching with the ChipWhisperer)
- COSADE 2017: Gold sponsor
- Blackhat USA 2016: Training based on ChipWhisperer, 2x talks by Colin, Arsenal
- CHES 2016: Sponsor with exhibit booth
- Blackhat USA 2014: Training class
- RECON 2014: Video and Slides
- O'Reilly Solid 2014: Demo
- COSADE 2014: Paper
- CHES 2013: Slides and Video
- Blackhat USA 2013
- iSEC Open Security Forum (April 2013)
- Design West 2013
- Blackhat EU 2013
- AtlSecCon 2013
- Blackhat Abu Dhabi 2012
Extra Notes
See the page Thanks for a note about the people who made this project possible.
ChipWhisperer is a Trademark of NewAE Technology Inc., registered in the U.S, the European Union, and China.
ChipSHOUTER is a Trademark of NewAE Technology Inc., registered in the European Union.
Trademarks used with permission.