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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 as of April 2016, with the objective of transitioning most community material into this format. 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 and Europe. 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.
Contents
Recent/Upcoming Events
The following events will be either be attended by someone from NewAE, or have a presentation using the ChipWhisperer.
- Blackhat USA 2016 (Training based on ChipWhisperer + 2x talks by Colin + Arsenal)
- CHES 2016 (Sponsor, will have exhibit booth)
Getting Started
Where to begin? If you're new to this area, see the 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.
Source code is held in the Git Repository.
You can get help on the Discussion Forum.
ChipWhisperer Documentation
Software Instructions
Hardware Instructions
Capture Hardware
ChipWhisperer-Hardware:
Old Hardware (no longer available, still supported)
Generic test equipment:
Target Boards
ChipWhisperer Target boards:
- CW301 Multi-Target
- CW303 XMEGA Target
- CW304 Notduino Target
- CW305 Artix FPGA Target
- CW306 Smart / SIM card Target
- CW308 UFO Target
- CW308T-GENERIC (Protoboard)
- CW308T-AVR (Atmel AVR, 8-bit)
- CW308T-XMEGA (Atmel XMEGA, 8-bit)
- CW308T-87C51 (Intel 87C51RB, 8-bit)
- CW308T-ATSAMR21 (Atmel SAMR21 with 802.15.4 radio, 32-bit ARM Cortex M0)
- CW308T-MEGARF (Atmel MegaRF2564RFR2, 8-bit AVR)
- CW308T-MSP430FR5 (TI MSP430FR5xxx, 16-bit)
- CW308T-S6LX9 (Xilinx Spartan 6 LX9 in TQFP, FPGA)
- CW308T-D2000 (Intel Quark D2000, x86 microcontroller)
3rd-Party Target Boards:
Tools
Other / Community Boards
ChipWhisperer Tutorials
The following tutorials use the ChipWhisperer software and/or hardware. They are designed to take you through a complete attack. You may also want to check the page on Embedded Attacks for more snippets of simple attacks and other things you should verify when making a secure system.
Not all tutorials are possible with all hardware. See the various tutorial pages for details.
ChipWhisperer Half-Baked Tutorials
The following aren't complete tutorials as the above, but instead show you a little bit about what you can accomplish with this system. They may eventually turn into complete tutorials, but for now are designed to provide some inspiration and reference.
Hardware-Specific Examples/Tutorials
CW308 (UFO Board)
Source Code and Releases
- Source code is held in the Git Repository.
- See Releases for details of software releases.
Developer Documentation
Software Development
Hardware Development
Various Development Notes
ChipWhisperer Training Material
See the above links for a wide range of tutorials. These take you through several examples.
If you're looking for a more structured course, we offer a 2-day training course at Blackhat USA 2016. In addition we're working to make some of this training material available online.
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.
Capture The Flag
In 2016 ChipWhisperer is used as part of the CHES2016 CTF. See details of the event on the CHES2016 CTF page.
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 and Europe. Used with Permission.
