Photon-Emission-Guided Laser Fault Injection Enables RP2350 Secure Debug

https://donjon.ledger.com/blog/rp2350-secure-debug-laser-fault-injection/

47•synack•1h ago

Comments

stackghost•54m ago

> The attack requires physical access, destructive preparation, and approximately $250,000 of laboratory equipment.

Not super practical, but neat attack

paulnpace•38m ago

> $250,000 of laboratory equipment

*currently

_trampeltier•35m ago

Some people have such and other toys just at work and can use it in spare time.

mrlambchop•28m ago

250k is not a bad investment for a company doing "reverse engineering as a service" - say 1k a pop to extract the firmware. Naturally, a good business idea for somewhere in the world with less regulations...

Fred27•46m ago

There's always an XKCD... https://xkcd.com/538/

orbital-decay•20m ago

It needs to be updated. Modern evil planners don't even need a wrench since they already have most keys given to them in advance by everyone, including nerds

jacquesm•30m ago

That's reminiscent of when we first found out that if you opened up dram chips you could use them for imaging. Of course the scale at which this is done is extremely impressive.