PhD Thesis Finally Done

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 12:44:47 +0000

If you’ve seen my presentations anytime over the past few years, you’ll know the introduction about “PhD Student at Dalhousie University finishing ‘soon’” has been the claim for the past several years. Finally ‘soon’ actually happened! You can see my complete thesis entitled “A Framework for Embedded Hardware Security Analysis” on the DalSpace website. It’s been a ton of fun doing the PhD, and I’ve had a lot of help over the years which I’ve very grateful for. For the foreseeable future I’ll be continuing to spin up NewAE Technology Inc., and keeping my ChipWhisperer project alive.

Side-Channel Power Analysis of AES Core in Project Vault

Sun, 31 May 2015 17:13:37 +0000

What is Project Vault

You can read a quick overview on various news sites, but basically project vault gives you a cryptographic module that you have complete control over. This means *you* decide to trust the module - even to the point of being able to access to implementation details of the crypto cores. Basically Project Vault is a solution to how you can avoid having unknown backdoors in your hardware. Rather than having to trust some vendor of security modules, you can make sure things are done correctly.

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PhD Thesis Finally Done

Side-Channel Power Analysis of AES Core in Project Vault

What is Project Vault