Bachelor thesis or student assistant job (HiWi) with regard to security in embedded systems

Side-channel evaluation on FPGAs with ChipWhisperer

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Bachelor thesis or student assistant job (HiWi) with regard to security in embedded systems
Side-channel evaluation on FPGAs with ChipWhisperer
An attacker of a system is no longer confined to the network connection as single point of entrance. Side-channels are ways for information
to flow outside of standard wires in a computer system. Therefore, an observer who is not part of the system can eavesdrop on private information.
Known methods to retrieve such information are using power as well as electromagnetic field measurements that are recorded with an oscilloscope.
ChipWhisperer is a platform which offers easily programmable FPGA boards and an open source side-channel analysis (SCA) framework for
evaluating measurements and even breaking encryptions like AES.

Main tasks for a potential bachelor thesis or student assistant job:
◦ Implement an interface for the ChipWhisperer framework to communicate with an oscilloscope.
◦ Adapt a predefined measurement procedure for the ChipWhisperer board.
◦ Evaluate measurements taken from consumer vs. ChipWhisperer board.

The amount of work can be adjusted to fit a bachelor thesis or assistant job. Please feel free to ask for details!

Prerequisites: Programming skills in Python, C/C++ and being careful when handling dev-boards
Type of Work: Theory (15%), Conception (25%), Implementation (60%)
Supervisor: Me at the LS12 :slight_smile: