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By (author) van Woudenberg, Jasper; By (author) O’Flynn, Colin

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Become a master hacker with this expert-written deep dive into hardware attacks on embedded systems.

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The Hardware Hacking Handbook is a deep dive into embedded security, perfect for readers interested in designing, analysing, and attacking devices. You”ll start with a crash course in embedded security and hardware interfaces and learn how to set up a test lab. Real-world examples and hands-on labs throughout allow you to explore hardware interfaces and practice various attacks.

Table of contents:

Introduction

Chapter 1: Dental Hygiene: Introduction to Embedded Security

Chapter 2: Reaching Out, Touching Me, Touching You: Hardware Peripheral Interfaces

Chapter 3: Casing the Joint: Identifying Components and Gathering Information

Chapter 4: Bull in a China Shop: Introducing Fault Injection

Chapter 5: Don’t Lick the Probe: How to Inject Faults

Chapter 6: Bench Time: Fault Injection Lab

Chapter 7: X Marks the Spot: EMFI Memory Dumping of Trezor

Chapter 8: I’ve Got the Power: Introduction to Power Analysis

Chapter 9: Bench Time: Simple Power Analysis

Chapter 10: Splitting the Difference: Differential Power Analysis

Chapter 11: Advanced Power Analysis

Chapter 12: A DPA/SCA Lab: Breaking an AES-256 Bootloader

Chapter 13: No Kiddin’: Real-Life Examples

Chapter 14: Think of the Children: Countermeasures, Certifications, and Goodbytes

Appendix A: Maxing Out Your Credit Card: Setting Up a Test Lab

Appendix B: All Your Base Are Belong to Us: Popular Pinouts

Review quote:
“I really wished such a book existed when I started with researching hardware hacking a few years ago. It introduces all the relevant background that’s needed for hardware hacking along with references to further reading (the references are really nice to have for more intermediate readers). It also provides many practical examples that helps you see why the concepts are important and how they are applied.”

—Yifan Lu, Security Researcher

“One of the most complete introductions to hardware hacking I’ve seen . . . provide[s] you something you wouldn”t learn elsewhere.”

—Arya Voronova, Hackaday

Biographical note:

Jasper van Woudenberg is the CTO of Riscure North America. He has been involved in embedded device security on a broad range of topics, including finding and helping fix bugs in code that runs on hundreds of millions of devices, using symbolic execution to extract keys from faulted cryptosystems, and using speech recognition algorithms for side channel trace processing. Jasper is a father of two and husband of one and lives in California, where he likes to bike mountains and board snow. He has a cat that tolerates him but is too cool for Twitter.

Colin O”Flynn runs NewAE Technology Inc., a startup designing tools and equipment to teach engineers about embedded security. He started the open-source ChipWhisperer project as part of his PhD, and was previously an assistant professor with Dalhousie University teaching embedded systems and security. He lives in Halifax, Canada, and you can find his dogs featured in many of the products developed with NewAE.

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Hardware attacks on embedded systems explained by notable experts Jasper van Woudenberg and Colin O”Flynn. The authors explore the embedded system threat model, hardware interfaces, various side channel and fault injection attacks (such as timing attacks, simple power analysis, and differential power analysis), as well as voltage and clock glitching.