Colin O'Flynn
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- School: Dalhousie University
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- Department: Electrical Engineering
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Location:
Halifax, NS - Dates at Dalhousie University: August 2015 - May 2019
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Biography
Dalhousie University - Electrical Engineering
CEO at NewAE Technology Inc. &
Assistant Professor at Dalhousie University
Research
Colin
O'Flynn
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
I've been deeply involved with hardware electronics design since I've been about ten, when my parents bought me a Radio Shack 10-in-1 kit. From that beginning I've worked on a wide range of projects including both hardware and embedded software, the most recent being my open-source ChipWhisperer project that helps to make advanced embedded security attacks accessible. This project aims to revolutionize this field by offering a complete open-source toolchain, along with tutorials and even hardware that can be purchased on Mouser. I co-founded NewAE Technology Inc., to make this project more widely accessible, and have now sold over 1000 ChipWhisperer-Lites along with many other products which have been used in universities, research labs, commercial companies validating their products, and governments.
Experience
Dalhousie University
Assistant Professor
Colin worked at Dalhousie University as a Assistant Professor
Dalhousie University
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Having seen first-hand how security is added to embedded systems (or more accurately, how often it is NOT added), I set out to improve the overall understanding in industry of the reality of attacks against embedded systems. During my PhD I developed the ChipWhisperer, the world's first open-source tool-chain for side-channel power analysis attacks. I also ran a capture the flag (CTF) for CHES2016, gave many talks at Black Hat/DEFCON/other conferences, and ran several tutorial sessions.
Dalhousie University
Lecturer
I've been responsible for teaching 2 different courses at Dalhousie. Over summer 2015 I taught the 'robot design course', which takes 3rd year students through a complete electronics design. I also taught a 2nd year digital electronics course twice.
Atmel
Electrical Engineering Consultant
Working on a variety of projects around 802.15.4, mostly working on 6LoWPAN related work.
Nautel
Engineering Consultant
Consultant on FPGA design mostly, also some DSP programming along with environmental testing.
NewAE Technology Inc.
CTO
Having spun NewAE Technology out of my PhD research, I've been working as the main R&D engineer for their products, along with long-term planning of future projects and products.
Education
Dalhousie University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Electrical Engineering
Dalhousie University
BSc
Electrical Engineering
Excellence in Engineering Graduate Scholarship
Excellence in Engineering Graduate Scholarship
Dalhousie University
Assistant Professor
Dalhousie University
PhD in Electrical Engineering
Having seen first-hand how security is added to embedded systems (or more accurately, how often it is NOT added), I set out to improve the overall understanding in industry of the reality of attacks against embedded systems. During my PhD I developed the ChipWhisperer, the world's first open-source tool-chain for side-channel power analysis attacks. I also ran a capture the flag (CTF) for CHES2016, gave many talks at Black Hat/DEFCON/other conferences, and ran several tutorial sessions.Dalhousie University
Lecturer
I've been responsible for teaching 2 different courses at Dalhousie. Over summer 2015 I taught the 'robot design course', which takes 3rd year students through a complete electronics design. I also taught a 2nd year digital electronics course twice.George Brown College
Electronics Technician Certificate
Publications
Side channel power analysis of an AES-256 Bootloader
Proceedings of IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '15)
Side channel power analysis of an AES-256 Bootloader
Proceedings of IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '15)
Power Analysis Attacks against IEEE 802.15.4 Nodes
Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '16)
Side channel power analysis of an AES-256 Bootloader
Proceedings of IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '15)
Power Analysis Attacks against IEEE 802.15.4 Nodes
Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '16)
ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research
Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '14)
Side channel power analysis of an AES-256 Bootloader
Proceedings of IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '15)
Power Analysis Attacks against IEEE 802.15.4 Nodes
Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '16)
ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research
Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '14)
FlexibleIP (FIP): IPv6 Stack for Experimental Work on Low-Power Wireless Networks
IEEE GreenCom 2012
Side channel power analysis of an AES-256 Bootloader
Proceedings of IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '15)
Power Analysis Attacks against IEEE 802.15.4 Nodes
Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '16)
ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research
Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '14)
FlexibleIP (FIP): IPv6 Stack for Experimental Work on Low-Power Wireless Networks
IEEE GreenCom 2012
Synchronous sampling and clock recovery of internal oscillators for side channel analysis and fault injection
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
Side channel power analysis of an AES-256 Bootloader
Proceedings of IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '15)
Power Analysis Attacks against IEEE 802.15.4 Nodes
Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '16)
ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research
Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '14)
FlexibleIP (FIP): IPv6 Stack for Experimental Work on Low-Power Wireless Networks
IEEE GreenCom 2012
Synchronous sampling and clock recovery of internal oscillators for side channel analysis and fault injection
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
Power Analysis for Cheapskates
Various Conferences
My presentation "Power Analysis for Cheapskates", given at: -Blackhat Abu Dhabi 2012 -Blackhat EU 2013 -AtlSecCon -Design West (ESC) 2013
Side channel power analysis of an AES-256 Bootloader
Proceedings of IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '15)
Power Analysis Attacks against IEEE 802.15.4 Nodes
Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '16)
ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research
Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '14)
FlexibleIP (FIP): IPv6 Stack for Experimental Work on Low-Power Wireless Networks
IEEE GreenCom 2012
Synchronous sampling and clock recovery of internal oscillators for side channel analysis and fault injection
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
Power Analysis for Cheapskates
Various Conferences
My presentation "Power Analysis for Cheapskates", given at: -Blackhat Abu Dhabi 2012 -Blackhat EU 2013 -AtlSecCon -Design West (ESC) 2013
A Case Study of Side-Channel Analysis using Decoupling Capacitor Power Measurement with the OpenADC
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol 7743, Foundations & Practice of Security
Side channel power analysis of an AES-256 Bootloader
Proceedings of IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '15)
Power Analysis Attacks against IEEE 802.15.4 Nodes
Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '16)
ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research
Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '14)
FlexibleIP (FIP): IPv6 Stack for Experimental Work on Low-Power Wireless Networks
IEEE GreenCom 2012
Synchronous sampling and clock recovery of internal oscillators for side channel analysis and fault injection
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
Power Analysis for Cheapskates
Various Conferences
My presentation "Power Analysis for Cheapskates", given at: -Blackhat Abu Dhabi 2012 -Blackhat EU 2013 -AtlSecCon -Design West (ESC) 2013
A Case Study of Side-Channel Analysis using Decoupling Capacitor Power Measurement with the OpenADC
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol 7743, Foundations & Practice of Security
Message Denial and Alteration on IEEE 802.15.4 Low-Power Radio Networks
4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security
Side channel power analysis of an AES-256 Bootloader
Proceedings of IEEE 28th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE '15)
Power Analysis Attacks against IEEE 802.15.4 Nodes
Proceedings of 7th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '16)
ChipWhisperer: An Open-Source Platform for Hardware Embedded Security Research
Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design (COSADE '14)
FlexibleIP (FIP): IPv6 Stack for Experimental Work on Low-Power Wireless Networks
IEEE GreenCom 2012
Synchronous sampling and clock recovery of internal oscillators for side channel analysis and fault injection
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
Power Analysis for Cheapskates
Various Conferences
My presentation "Power Analysis for Cheapskates", given at: -Blackhat Abu Dhabi 2012 -Blackhat EU 2013 -AtlSecCon -Design West (ESC) 2013
A Case Study of Side-Channel Analysis using Decoupling Capacitor Power Measurement with the OpenADC
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Vol 7743, Foundations & Practice of Security
Message Denial and Alteration on IEEE 802.15.4 Low-Power Radio Networks
4th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security
IoT Goes Nuclear: Creating a ZigBee Chain Reaction
2017 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)
