Laser Fault Injection Training

Get a comprehensive introduction to optics, laser technology, and laser fault injection principles. Using an ALPhANOV bench, you'll learn the equipment setup, safety procedures, and campaign design, then gain hands-on experience setting up the bench, running campaigns on a device under test, and analyzing results. The course also covers troubleshooting and bench maintenance for real-world testing conditions.

Learn key differential fault analysis methodologies, including the Piret & Quisquater attack on the AES final rounds and the Kim & Quisquater attack on the AES key schedule. Through hands-on exercises, you'll compute differentials, characterize faults, and recover secret keys from faulty AES outputs, extending these techniques to AES-256.

Apply your skills to a real hardware challenge: inducing faults on an NXP i.MX8 chip running AES-128 using laser fault injection. You'll identify sensitive areas of the chip, develop an attack strategy, generate faulty ciphertexts, and apply DFA techniques to recover the full secret key.