User experience

ATMEL, Secure Microcontroller Solutions Division

John Conner, Senior Security Analyst with ATMEL says:

"Inspector has revolutionized the way we evaluate our products' DPA resistance. Its strength lies in the way it integrates the acquisition and analysis processes allowing us to quickly determine the effectiveness of new crypto-graphic hardware designs.

Further, its excellent graphical interface allows the user to visualise the power signatures of discrete acquisitions individually or simultaneously - invaluable when preparing data for DPA during an attack – while its powerful analysis libraries support most commercially used encryption algorithms.

With comprehensive software updates and technical support from Riscure it helps us keep our products secure."

Smart Card Evaluation Laboratory - Europe

Their Security Technology Manager says:

"I’ve been performing side channel and perturbation attacks for six years now. It’s amazing to see how microcontrollers’ resistance to cryptanalysis has improved over that time. To keep up with this, I require advanced signal processing and graphical results mapping techniques, and the ability to process larger data sets efficiently. Inspector allows this. Particularly useful is the facility for chaining together several computationally expensive processes sequentially.

Hackers in the real world come up with new ideas all the time. They write novel software for attacks, and so also should we in the security evaluation environment. Some tools that I’ve used are not so flexible in achieving this. Nowadays it’s apparent that many attack targets inherently resist standard off-the-shelf attack approaches. I need to implement and test new ideas on the fly."