Practical side-channel attack on a security device

Manuel San Pedro, Victor Servant, Charles Guillemet · 2019

This paper demonstrates how to mount a side-channel attack on a security device: a cryptocurrency hardware wallet. Our study led to sensitive user data extraction, and was responsibly disclosed to the vendor who was able to patch its firmware. We explain here what we did and the tool we used to extract a user PIN from the device.

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