John LeClair
An experienced Embedded Systems Engineer and Security Research Engineer specializing in FPGAs, BSPs, Side-Channel Analysis, Reverse Engineering of hardware and software - mostly for the United States Government including most recently the US Navy, US Marine Corps and DARPA. I currently work for a startup creating secure hypervisor technology solutions for Department of Defense Embedded Systems Avionics programs. Most of my free time is spent training for Ironman Triathlons.
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Electromagnet Fault Injection (EMFI) is a fault injection technique for conducting physical attacks against integrated circuits. An attacker can use electromagnetic fault injection to bypass cryptographic algorithms, hardware-provided security and anti-tamper features, software security features and even empirically determine the layout of an integrated circuit on a silicone die. These integrated circuits could be RAM chips, CPUs, dedicated random number generator (RNG) chips, Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chips, etc. These physical attacks can all be accomplished with tools that cost very little to free.