Embedded Microcontrollers in Smartcards: Efficient Implementations and Side-Channel Attacks

Lecturer:

Martin Novotný (gar.), Timo Kasper

Tutor:

Martin Novotný (gar.), Timo Kasper

Supervisor:

Department of Computer Systems

Synopsis:

Practical implementation of cryptographic schemes on an embedded microcontroller. Attacking them by means of side-channel analysis.

Requirements:

Syllabus of lectures:

1.Understanding of the RISC architecture of the Atmel AVR microcontroller

2.Creating simple assembler programs with the development environment AVR Studio

3.Programming of the symmetric cipher as a team (groups of two students) in assembly

4.Introduction to SmartCard ISO 7816 and its usage in the smart card operating system SOSSE

5.Communicate with the smartcards with a PC

6.Understanding the basics of side-channel analysis

7.How To record measurements from the smartcards

8.Implementing a differential power analysis (DPA) attack to extract secret keys

Syllabus of tutorials:

1.Understanding of the RISC architecture of the Atmel AVR microcontroller

2.Creating simple assembler programs with the development environment AVR Studio

3.Programming of the symmetric cipher as a team (groups of two students) in assembly

4.Introduction to SmartCard ISO 7816 and its usage in the smart card operating system SOSSE

5.Communicate with the smartcards with a PC

6.Understanding the basics of side-channel analysis

7.How To record measurements from the smartcards

8.Implementing a differential power analysis (DPA) attack to extract secret keys

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