I see that there is an unpopulated 8-pin header (J6) on CW-Lite for smart card connection. Do you have any more documentation on how to interface to a smart card through this header? I don’t see anything in the Python API related to Smart Cards.
Hi,
There were plans originally to support smart cards via an interface board, but this never ended up being completed due to concerns about it being used against real targets.
Alex
@Alex_Dewar Do you really think that any of the smart cards manufactured after 2010 could be vulnerable to an attack using chipwiper class equipment (at a price of 300-1500 USD)? In my opinion, none of them - all of them have been specifically protected against low and mild-budget range attacks, in particular against glitches and side channel measurements.
Maybe Chipwhisperer developers were able to glitch relatively new smart cards? Or maybe because of legal issues…
Ability to run the Vcc glitch attack depends of some factors like OTP configuration of the smart card which activates glitch protection.
And yes, this low cost equipment is able to glitch smart card code like authentication to bypass security.
Regarding side channel attack. Most of modern AES implementations inside the smart card are masked.