Publication details
APDUPlay 1.0
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Web | Application download and documentation |
| Description | Security evaluation of implementation of cryptographic protocols between application and smart card may require tampering with communication channel, redirection to different device or capture and analysis of transported traffic. By introduction of random or patterned faults, implementation robustness can be tested. If the traffic is redirected to measurement device SCSAT04 (extended oscilloscope developed on VUT Brno), power analysis of smart card can be performed. Both operations are not currently supported by ordinary software applications commonly used with PC/SC interface and therefore own application APDUPlay was implemented to facilitate this task. APDUPlay works as transparent proxy between application and smart card by introduction of additional layer into PC/SC subsystem on MS Windows XP/Vista/7 platform. The project APDUPlay allows to log and manipulate communication realized via PC/SC interface and is providing following functionality: 1) Log content and additional information about exchanged PC/SC communication, visualize and prepare for further processing 2) Manipulate communication in real time based on predefined rules 3) Redirect communication via socket to other device/computer The project was developed to support security evaluation and testing of smart card applications both on data level (apdu packet visualization and manipulation to test correctness of implementation of security functions) and side channel level (power analysis consumption potentially resulting in code reverse engineering and cryptographic secret exposure). |
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