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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.

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)
• 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

Installing ChipWhisperer

Common Tool Information

CW-Capture Tool

CW-Analyzer Tool

File Formats

Hardware Instructions

Capture Hardware

ChipWhisperer-Hardware:

• CW1173 ChipWhisperer-Lite
• CW1200 ChipWhisperer-Pro

Old Hardware (no longer available, still supported)

• CW1002 ChipWhisperer Capture Rev2

Generic test equipment:

• PicoScope (USB Scope)
• VISA Connected Oscilloscope

Target Boards

ChipWhisperer Target boards:

• CW301 Multi-Target
• CW303 XMEGA Target
• CW304 Notduino Target
• CW305 Artix FPGA Target
• CW307 UFO Target

3rd-Party Target Boards:

• SAKURA-G Target
• SASEBO-GII Target
• SASEBO-W Target
• Breadboard Arduino Target

Tools

• CW501 Differential Probe
• CW502 Low Noise Amplifier
• CW503 Probe Power Supply
• CW506 Advanced Breakout Board
• CW508 SMA Filters

Other / Community Boards

• Clock Recovery Board
• 802.15.4 8-bit SoC Test Board

Theory

• Correlation Power Analysis
• Template Attacks

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.

Tutorials

See Tutorial Map for important information & suggested order of completion.

Theory

Correlation Power Analysis

Template Attacks

Extending AES-128 Attacks to AES-256

Basic Tutorials

Tutorial B1 Building a SimpleSerial Project

Tutorial B2 Viewing Instruction Power Differences

Tutorial B3-1 Timing Analysis with Power for Password Bypass

Tutorial B5 Breaking AES (Straightforward)

Tutorial B6 Breaking AES (Manual CPA Attack)

Tutorial B7 Profiling Attacks (with HW Assumption)

Tutorial B11 Breaking RSA

Advanced Tutorials

Tutorial A2 Introduction to Glitch Attacks (including Glitch Explorer)

Tutorial A3 VCC Glitch Attacks

Tutorial A5 Breaking AES-256 Bootloader

Tutorial A5-Bonus Breaking AES-256 Bootloader

Tutorial A7 Glitch Buffer Attacks

Tutorial A8 32bit AES

Hardware-Specific Tutorials

Tutorial P1 Stream Mode and Advanced Triggering (CW Pro)

Tutorial CW305-1 Building a Project

Tutorial CW305-2 Breaking AES on FPGA

Tutorial CW305-3 Clock Glitching

Tutorial CW305-4 Voltage Glitching with Crowbars

Archived Tutorials (v4/v3 only)

Tutorial B3-2 Timing Analysis with Power for Attacking TSB

Tutorial B4 Testing Two Partitions of Traces

Tutorial B5-2 Breaking DES (Straightforward)

Tutorial B8 Profiling Attacks (Manual Template Attack)

Tutorial B9 The Preprocessing Modules

Tutorial B10 Using with SASEBO-W CardOS or DPA Contest v4.2

Tutorial A1 Synchronization to Communication Lines

Tutorial A4 SAD Trigger for SCA and Glitch

Tutorial A6 Replication of Ilya Kizhvatov's XMEGA® Attack

Tutorial A9 Bypassing LPC1114 Read Protect

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

• FPGA Details

Various Development Notes

• CW Release Steps

ChipWhisperer Training Material

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.