Getting to know your smart-card: Reverse-Engineering the Low Level Communication Layer

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• Andriana Gkaniatsou
• Thursday 15 October 2015, 11:00-12:00
• Room 245, School of Computer Science.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Gurchetan Grewal.

Smart-cards are considered to be one of the most secure, tamper-resistant, and trusted devices for implementing cryptographic operations. The commonly used RSA PKCS #11 standard defines the Application Programming Interface for cryptographic devices such as smart-cards. Though there has been work on attacking and fixing RSA PKCS #11 in the API level, little attention has been paid to the low-level protocols that implement it. We will present REPROVE , the first automated tool that reverse-engineers the low-level communication of a smart-card and a reader, deduces the card’s operations and translates PKCS #11 functions to communication steps. REPROVE is implementation practice independent and does not require access to the card’s code.

This talk is part of the Computer Security Seminars series.

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• Computer Science Departmental Series
• Computer Science Distinguished Seminars
• Computer Security Seminars
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