Inspector SCA
The Inspector SCA - Side Channel Analysis - version offers all possibilities to conduct side channel analysis, such as DPA and EMA. Different measurement hardware components address the form factors that we nowadays find in high-security products: contact smart cards, contactless smart cards, and crypto processors in embedded technologies.
Hardware components | |
Device for making high quality power measurements on smart cards with configurable parameters such as trigger, voltage level, gain. | |
Contactless reader with noise reduction and integrated trigger function for side channel testing of contactless cards. | |
Flexible device for conducting high-quality EM measurements on different types of crypto processors. | |
Waveform trigger device with built-in analogue filter using real-time correlation pattern matching of any user defined reference pattern. | |
Oscilloscope delivered with Inspector SCA. PicoScope 5000 series is also supported. |
>> Overview table of Inspector hardware components
Software features | |
Control over the test object, trigger, oscilloscope and chaining function for real-time application of signal processing during data acquisition. | |
Signal processing features including filters, spectrum, statistics, alignment and correlation functions. | |
Highly configurable cryptanalysis modules for SPA, DPA/CPA and high-order DPA on DES, AES, RSA and ECC. | |
The Inspector software core with IDE and high-end PC workstation. The source code of all software modules can directly be edited in the Integrated Development Environment. |
How to use Inspector SCA
Once the power, EM or RF measurements have been taken, a wide variety of signal processing methods is available to establish a “high signal and low noise” trace set. The signal processing features are designed to deal with the subtle differences between the signal processing of an electromagnetic trace, a power trace, and an RF trace.
Next, a user can perform timing analysis or trace inspection on for instance SPA vulnerabilities with Inspector’s strong graphical trace representation. With many secure implementations nowadays being SPA resistant, the focus of testing typically lies on the differential test methods (i.e. DPA/CPA). For this, Inspector offers an extensive set of configurable methods for all major cryptographic algorithms, including 3-DES, AES, RSA and ECC.
Benefits
- One solution for power (SPA/DPA), electromagnetic (EMA) and contactless (RF) testing of smart card and embedded technology.
- High-quality measurement hardware to reach an optimal signal-to-noise ratio on crypto processors.
- Efficient usage of real-time signal processing during data acquisition.
- A stable platform which enables acquisition of millions of traces.
- Tight oscilloscope integration to configure all acquisition settings via Inspector GUI and which significantly boosts the data acquisition speed.
- Advanced alignment methods to overcome clock jitter and randomisation countermeasures.
- Highly configurable cryptanalysis modules for SPA, DPA and higher-order DPA on 3-DES, AES, RSA and ECC.
