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The 3rd DPA Contest

The DPA contest is being organized by TELECOM ParisTech University. Side-channel attack techniques are publicly evaluated and compared. Participants in the 1st contest used power waveforms from a DES circuit provided by the organizer to reveal the secret key used in the DES. Participants in the 2nd contest used power traces of an AES circuit on the SASEBO-GII board. Participants in the 3rd DPA contest are required to measure power consumption or EM radiation of an AES circuit on the SASEBO-GII board by themselves to reveal the secret key embedded in the AES circuit.

This page provides the AES circuit, a waveform acquisition program, and support documents for the 3rd DPA contest. Academic participants for the third contest who competed in the 2nd DPA contest can receive a free SASEBO-GII board courtesy of Cryptography Research, Inc. Other participants can purchase the SASEBO-GII from Tokyo Electron Device Ltd.

Academic participants for the third contest will receive a free SASEBO-W board from Cryptgraphy Research, Inc. Please visit the 3rd DPA contest page to participate in the contest.

SASEBO-GII Hardware Resources


Waveform Acquisition Software (for Windows)


CPA Tool (for Windows)


Sample Power Traces


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