(Don't) Try This at Home! Power, Oscilloscope and Cracking a Password
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A practical cybersecurity session demonstrating hardware-based password breaking using electrical equipment: it covers using power, oscilloscopes and related lab tools to analyze and extract credentials. The talk focuses on hands-on techniques for attacking authentication by measuring electrical signals and interpreting them with standard oscilloscope methods.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:27UART password issue
- 2:08Brute force and timing
- 5:40Oscilloscope setup
- 9:33Current spike hypothesis
- 12:01Second Arduino analysis
- 15:37Noise reduction methods
- 18:49Attack algorithm and demo
- 22:29Simple Power Analysis
- 23:56Differential power analysis
- 24:39Hardware cost and attack time
- 27:58Password comparison flaw
- 31:05Secure password comparison
- 34:57Advanced oscilloscope analysis
- 35:40Summary and recruitment
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