Evolving Electronics: Tracking Trends and Security

Welcome back Dr Colin O’Flynn of Dalhousie University and New AE tech!

• Colin has been on the show twice before
  • Episode 239 in 2015
  • Episode 552 in 2021
• Colin continues to publish/do research around side channel attacks
• Now he’s targeting different ports / Jitter measurements
• JTAGulator
• RF Mixer
• Side channel with power
• Can you fix it on a chip?
• Targeting an SD Card port because there’s a clock
• Other clocked things like displays / RF
• State of hardware security
• RPi episode (RP2350)
• OpenTitan 
• Root of Trust
• Episode with Laura Abbott from Oxide
• Open vs closed about security
• Guidelines for what to care about like in the ARM PSA
• UK gov’t
• Lowrisc Sonata System
• CHERI / CHERIot
• Secure / non-secure
• Artix 7 FPGA
• Mouser bonded area
• Pick and place experiments
• Charm High / Neoden
• Failing on fast turn
• Person running production
• Recovering from Covid shortages
• Airtag teardown
• ESP32 HCI supposed vulnerability (and response)
• Colin is writing a book about small scale production
• Sign up to learn more about the book when its available!
• Students “Kids these days”
• ChatGPT in the classroom
• Check out Colin’s blog for more info!