[Cryptography] Attacks only get easier

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Wed Jan 29 03:49:39 EST 2025


Twenty years ago, bunnie Huang used very clever custom FPGA-based trickery to
hack the XBox.

Today you can buy FPGA-based hardware for similar types of attacks on
Aliexpress:

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006647043420.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006581004374.html
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005006648091428.html

(they're all over Aliexpress, look for the keywords "pcileech" or 75T, the
Artix 7 FPGA they all seem to use).

Peter.



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