Side-channel attacks, such as Differential Power Analysis or Simple Power Analysis require the collection of power or EM traces from a physical device using a complicated setup. Recently, there has been development on side-channel simulators which can simulate a leakage trace given a binary.

The student should research side-channel attacks on elliptic-curve cryptography, such as DPA and CPA, which they will then implement in the pyecsca toolkit. To have a simple way to evaluate the attacks the student should implement side-channel leakage simulation, using the Rainbow simulator as a basis on which a usable API should be designed. The student should also implement finite-field level leakage emulation using tracing already present in the toolkit. Finally, the functionality of both the attacks and the simulator should be evaluated by performing the attacks on a generated implementation of elliptic curve cryptography.

pyecsca toolkit: https://neuromancer.sk/pyecsca/

Rainbow: https://github.com/Ledger-Donjon/rainbow