Side Channel Resistance Evaluation and Measurement

While unknown to most people, hardware implementation attacks provide a serious adversary for systems that contain sensitive data. Mission critical information can be extracted from a design with little effort from an attacker when they have access to the physical hardware. Thus designers try to mitigate this problem by using unique countermeasures styles. This work presents the first practical differential power analysis security evaluation of a countermeasure style called t-private logic. A PRESENT block cipher S-Box was implemented on a Virtex 5 FPGA as a reference platform. Both hardware and simulated power traces were collected. Statistical analyses were performed (CPA and Correlation enhanced collision attack) and our results revealed a first-order side channel attack vulnerability

Maitland Garden Village Perseverance Park Redevelopment

We were invited by Maitland Garden Village to assist in the redevelopment of a community park by working with the Cape Town City Parks Dept. and forming a partnership with a group of community members. We visited local parks to identify layout and equipment options, gathered insight on the park through an informal survey, and hosted a community meeting to draw out and share design ideas. After addressing a safety concern through a park clean-up, the partnership hosted a fun day and planting activity to launch the redevelopment. The hard work of the partnership and City Parks Dept. resulted in a park design, implementation plan, catalogue of park elements, and the formation of a community steering committee who has taken the responsibility of seeing the redevelopment through to completion