Side Channel Analysis Software Inspector Software

DS2201A Inspector Acquisition and Signal Processing helps security teams efficiently capture, prepare, and manage the measurement data required for reliable side-channel analysis.

Inspector brings acquisition, hardware interaction, signal processing, and trace management into a structured workflow. Users can collect power and electromagnetic measurements, prepare traces for subsequent analysis, and efficiently manage large datasets. Flexible acquisition options and trace-processing capabilities help teams establish consistent datasets before moving into leakage assessment and advanced cryptographic analysis.

• Control and streamline side-channel data acquisition across supported measurement hardware and test setups.
• Acquire high-quality power and electromagnetic measurements from security-critical embedded devices.
• Prepare raw measurement traces for analysis using editing operations such as trimming, padding, reversing, and negating.
• Manage large trace datasets efficiently with capabilities for exporting, splitting, mixing, sorting, and transposing data.
• Assess and recover measurement traces to improve data quality before advanced analysis.
• Support multiple acquisition workflows, including oscilloscope, simulation, XY, and legacy acquisition environments.
• Create consistent, analysis-ready datasets that provide a reliable foundation for leakage assessment and cryptographic analysis.
• Reduce repetitive data preparation tasks through an integrated acquisition and signal-processing workflow.
• Support both power and electromagnetic side-channel analysis within a common software environment.
• Build a scalable foundation for advanced Inspector analysis, enabling teams to progress from signal acquisition into deeper statistical and cryptographic evaluation.

DS2202A Inspector Analysis Professional provides security teams with a comprehensive set of analysis capabilities for detecting leakage, investigating vulnerabilities, and validating cryptographic implementations.

Building on acquired and prepared measurement data, Inspector brings statistical analysis, spectral analysis, cryptographic evaluation, signal processing, and trace management into a structured environment. Ready-to-use capabilities help teams move efficiently from measurement data to security conclusions while maintaining consistent and repeatable evaluation workflows across projects.

• Detect and assess side-channel leakage using statistical analysis techniques such as correlation, distribution, standard deviation, and auto-correlation.
• Evaluate leakage across the frequency domain with spectrum, spectrogram, frequency-band decomposition, and spectral integration capabilities.
• Perform structured leakage assessments using established methodologies such as TVLA t-test.
• Validate cryptographic implementations with dedicated analysis tools, including Known Key Analysis, Crypto Calculator, and Verification capabilities.
• Investigate fault-related cryptographic behavior using integrated Fault Analysis functionality.
• Prepare complex measurement data for analysis with resampling, low-pass filtering, moving averages, alignment, and trace stretching.
• Improve trace consistency and analysis quality through dedicated signal-processing capabilities.
• Import and manage measurement traces from supported acquisition workflows for further security analysis.
• Reduce the need to develop analysis methods from scratch with ready-to-use analysis capabilities integrated into Inspector.
• Support repeatable security evaluations across development, vulnerability assessment, countermeasure validation, and certification preparation.
• Provide a structured path into advanced side-channel analysis for teams building their security expertise while supporting the needs of experienced evaluators.

DS2203A Inspector Analysis Premium delivers the most advanced analysis capabilities within the Inspector SCA portfolio, helping security teams investigate complex implementations, automate evaluation workflows, and uncover vulnerabilities beyond conventional analysis techniques.

Building on all capabilities included with DS2202A Inspector Analysis Professional, the Premium edition adds advanced cryptographic attacks, pattern detection, workflow automation, enhanced signal processing, and trace manipulation capabilities. These tools help experienced evaluators address increasingly sophisticated countermeasures and efficiently analyze complex or large-scale datasets.

• Build on the complete Analysis Professional toolkit with additional capabilities for advanced security evaluations.
• Perform advanced cryptographic attacks, including AES second-order, RSA high-order and neighbor correlation, ECC partial nonce, DES masked input, and collision attacks.
• Apply deep learning-based analysis to investigate complex leakage patterns and advanced cryptographic implementations.
• Detect and extract complex signal patterns with Pattern Match, Pattern Extract, Enhanced Pattern Detection, Multi-Advanced Pattern Detection, and Cross-Correlation capabilities.
• Automate advanced evaluation workflows using workflow automation and configurable signal-processing pipelines.
• Improve trace alignment and consistency with dynamic alignment, elastic alignment, round alignment, and Crystal-Clear Correction capabilities.
• Analyze complex signal behavior using harmonics analysis and notch filtering.
• Scale analysis across large datasets with advanced trace manipulation and augmentation capabilities.
• Accelerate computationally intensive workflows using optimized processing capabilities for supported Keysight PXI-based environments.
• Investigate highly protected implementations that may require techniques beyond conventional statistical and cryptographic analysis.
• Increase repeatability across advanced evaluations by combining automation, analysis, and signal processing within a structured Inspector workflow.
• Support high-assurance security validation, certification, and research with advanced analysis capabilities designed for demanding evaluation environments.