Quadseal Hardware Attack Mitigation | Research Capability & Technology Portfolio

Quadseal is a mitigation technique to stop attackers from obtaining secret keys from block ciphers. Where a conventional encrypting device is accessible it is possible to obtain the secret key in less than 10 minutes. With Quadseal the attacker is stymied, making communications channels and other protected items far safer.

Competitive advantage

First known countermeasure that can thwart both power and fault attacks
Smallest power area product among all available technologies
Embedded Systems Laboratory has over 20 years’ experience in hardware–software co-design, security and design automation

Impact

Enhanced communications security

Successful applications

Our work in pipelined processing systems has been used extensively by Canon Inc.
Optimised systems used within multiple other commercial environments

Capabilities and facilities

Side channel analysis equipment for measuring power and electromagnetic radiation
SASEBO FPGA-based boards to create circuits that can be tested
Custom made processor boards for testing of software countermeasures

Our partners

Canon Information Systems Research Australia
Seeing Machines Inc.
Defence Science and Technology (DST)