[Cryptech Tech] status alpha board designers

Randy Bush randy at psg.com
Sat Apr 25 19:51:09 UTC 2015


>> a power drop is considered an attack; welcome to c4 time.
> 
> If so, then there may be a need to add a power-sense circuitry for
> out-of-tolerance voltage values that would feed into the tamper-detect
> MCU, an associated power-failure LED indicator (maybe using one of the
> existing 4 LEDs already there?), and possibly implement a hard
> shut-down that would require a manual intervention to restart.

take a look at the alpha diagram.  as there is no faraday and epoxy wrap
etc, there is no real detection.  the alpha will have a button to
represent all the detection mechanisms.  but it will implement the
reaction to attack.

randy


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