wbs_aes_openwhitebox_chow

OpenWhiteBox AES Chow challenge

There is no official challenge so we made our own based on the implementation available from the OpenWhiteBox project.

Ref: https://github.com/OpenWhiteBox/AES

Components

• target contains a compiled version, instructions how to compile by yourself, and instructions how to use it, as well as the solution (the key to recover).
• traces contains explanations on how to acquire a visual trace and snapshots used in the tutorial.
• DCA contains the DCA attack against this challenge.
• DFA contains the DFA attack against this challenge.

See the projet wiki for the corresponding tutorial.

Other write-ups

It was not a real challenge, but the OpenWhiteBox project has a cryptanalysis module for Chow:

• https://github.com/OpenWhiteBox/AES/tree/master/cryptanalysis/chow