What...?

Die Datenkrake is an open-source hardware & software toolchain designed with hardware reverse-engineering & security analysis in mind.

We assembled a short list of facts to provide a rough overview about core capabilities and use-cases:

• Low cost development & attack-platform
• ARM MCU + FPGA + FTDI USB UART
• Easy access to I/O
  • RJ-45 expansion jacks with +5V and GND
  • Standard headers for breakout
  • Buffered, protected 3V/5V tolerant I/O
  • ARM JTAG and FPGA JTAG
• LPC17 family Cortex-M3 ARM
  • Up to three bi-directional UARTs to the FPGA
  • Dedicated UART interface to the PC via FTDI USB
    • Provides Command Line Interface for user interaction
    • Non-Interactive mode for transferring data
    • On-chip boot-loader for USB upgradable firmware
  • Control and configuration of all onboard- and FPGA-peripherals
• FPGA
  • USB upgradable bit-stream
  • 48 GPIO, eight channels with six bi-directional lines
  • Wishbone compatible internal bus
  • Extensive expansion capabilities
• Daisy-chain multiple Boards
• 5V USB-Bus-powered device, optionally over a USB Y-Cable

Use-cases

• Parallel analysis
  • Fuzzing
    • Automatic target crash detection
    • Automatic hardware reset of target
  • Glitching
    • Expansion jacks provide easy interface to targets
    • Onboard input protection
• Instrumentation
  • Passive/Active analysis of embedded busses
  • Timing-critical analysis applications
  • Hardware triggering
  • Analysis of proprietary protocols
• Hardware-offloading
  • Real time analysis
  • Hardware event filters
  • Serialized output of relevant data

More information to be coming soon. A good start would be, following @nedos and @br3t (or less tweets @diedatenkrake) on twitter. If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to join #ddk on freenode IRC.

There is a 4-day training already scheduled at the REcon 2013 conference in Montreal, Canada.