Generation of Controlled Analog Emissions from Embedded Devices using Software Stress Methods

Abstract

In this paper, we present a new method that uses software diagnostic tools to study the generation of induced spurious physical emissions from embedded devices over air-gapped (remote) channels. With this methodology, spurious emissions are induced during controlled computer operations such as dynamic memory allocation, hard disk writing and computations. Each stressing operation creates a pulse in an amplitude shift keying scheme. These software techniques can provide repeatable measurements of embedded devices for mapping unwanted emissions over air-gapped channels.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1041934

Entities

People

  • Israel PĂ©rez
  • John D. Rockway
  • Jonathan H. Nelson
  • Kristopher Buchanan
  • Oren Sternberg
  • Sara Wheeland

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Gaps
  • Central Processing Units
  • Computers
  • Electronic Components
  • Embedded Systems
  • Emission
  • Emission Spectra
  • Frequency
  • Measurement
  • Monitors
  • Operating Systems
  • Personal Computers
  • Radio Frequency
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Spectra
  • Spectrum Analyzers
  • Square Roots

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.