[HGI-News-de] HGI Seminar am 20. März: "From Silicon to C: Reverse-Engineering Crypro. Hardware" by C. Nohl (Univ. of Virginia)

[Newsletter des Horst Görtz Instituts]

Hallo,

im Rahmen des HGI-Seminars "Aktuelle Themen der IT-Sicherheit" wird  
am kommenden Donnerstag der folgende Vortrag angeboten:

*Karsten Nohl* (University of Virginia, USA)
*"**From Silicon to C: Reverse-Engineering Cryptographic Hardware**"*

Donnerstag, den *20. März *um  11.00 Uhr
Raum: IC 4/161.

Alle Interessierte sind herzlich eingeladen!


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Zusammenfassung:


This talk looks at the possibility of reverse-engineering proprietary algorithms from hardware. I present a mostly automated approach to reconstructing functionality by using a combination of image analysis of circuits and protocol analysis. The cryptography my approach finds on a widely deployed "secure" RFID token has several vulnerabilities including weaknesses in the random number generator and very low resistance against brute-force attacks. I will further raise the question of how small cryptography can be implemented and present our design for a small hash function that reuses circuitry already found on RFID tags.

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Informationen über die nächsten geplannten Vorträge im Rahmen des
HGI-Seminars sind auch im Web zu finden:
http://www.hgi.rub.de/deutsch/lehrangebot/seminar/ws200708.html

Gruß,
Biljana Cubaleska