Photon Emission (PE) and Laser-Assisted Side-Channel Analysis are powerful techniques and essential tools for Integrated Circuit (IC) failure analysis and debugging. Beyond Failure Analysis (FA) applications, cybersecurity research over the past decade has been discovering the capability of these tools to analyze security-based hardware implementations in ICs, like encryption ciphers and key storage locations. This project aims to analyze PE mechanics and identify hardware implementations through PE, show proof of PE-based attacks on commonly used ciphers, and propose countermeasures to mitigate such attacks.

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Creator

• Wu, Evan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042723-142540
• 106361

Keyword

• Hardware Security
• Photon Emission
• Side-Channel Analysis

Advisor

• Tajik, Shahin

Year

• 2023

Date created

• 2023-04-27

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Source

• E-project-042723-142540

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-06-23