sca_aes_rhme3_prequal

RHME3 prequal challenge

This one is a bit of an exception as it's not a whitebox but a side-channel challenge, but we can solve it with the help of Daredevil.

One of the prequal challenges of the RHME3 CTF was a set of power traces.
Ref: https://rhme.riscure.com/3/

Components

• target contains the original challenge.
• DPA contains the DPA attack against this challenge.

Other write-ups

• using Jlsca
  • https://github.com/ResultsMayVary/ctf/tree/master/RHME3/tracing
  • https://github.com/x8-999-github/cw-projects-experiments/blob/master/tracing_the_traces/tracing_the_traces_jlsca.ipynb
  • https://gist.github.com/dqi/88c86e484fc9302694837810680d2023
• using Chipwhisperer
  • https://github.com/x8-999-github/cw-projects-experiments/blob/master/tracing_the_traces/tracing_the_traces_cw.ipynb
  • https://govanify.com/post/rhme3-quals-ctf/
• using no specific SCA tool
  • https://gist.github.com/DavidBuchanan314/c6d4c529e307277d13ce17bcc39726fc
  • https://github.com/pakesson/ctf/blob/master/RHme3/qualifiers/tracing_the_traces/python_sca_notebook.ipynb
• See also https://ctftime.org/task/4527