Extracting the seed from secure elements for your crypto wallet, IoT, healthcare, and automotive systems. 👛💥🔬☢️

In 2023, security researcher Olivier Heriveaux presented research on the ATECC608B hardware security element from Microchip. Using laser fault injection combined with authentication bypass and session key manipulation, he was eventually able to recover the wallet seed from the device.

One particularly interesting technique you can see here is how to handle fragile microcomponents using the "resining" technique - encapsulating the tiny chip package in epoxy resin before attacking it.

For those of us working in IoT, healthcare, and automotive cybersecurity, secure elements are heavily used in these industries to ensure secure communication and key storage. For example, in AUTOSAR-based car components, these elements are used for SecOC.

Highly recommended - check it out! :)

More details:

Triple Exploit Chain With Laser Fault Injection On A Secure Element [PDF]: https://hardwear.io/netherlands-2023/presentation/triple-exploit-chain-with-laser-fault-injection-on-a-secure-element.pdf

Triple Exploit Chain With Laser Fault Injection On A Secure Element [Youtube]: https://lnkd.in/dp5maeZr