SCA3S: command-line interface

Acting as a component part of the wider SCARV project, SCA3S is a collection of resources that support the development and analysis of cryptographic implementations wrt. side-channel attack: SCA3A is, more specifically, pitched as offering "side-channel analysis as a service": it allows users to acquire and analyse side-channel data-sets which stem from execution of their implementation, without (necessarily) owning or operating the associated infrastructure. Mirroring the goals of SCARV, it places particular emphasis on analogue side-channels (e.g., power and EM) stemming from RISC-V-based platforms. The main repository acts as a general container for associated resources; this specific submodule houses a CLI which allows interaction with the front-end infrastructure without using the web-based UI.

Organisation

├── bin                     - scripts (e.g., environment configuration)
├── build                   - working directory for build
├── extern                  - external resources (e.g., submodules)
│   └── wiki                  - submodule: scarv/sca3s-cli.wiki
└── src
    └── sca3s
        └── cli

Installation

pip install sca3s_cli

Configuration

• SCA3S CLI links to a pre-existing SCA3S account via an API token which can be obtained via the user profile page.
• Once a token is obtained and sca3s-cli installed, edit the config file in ~/.sca3s/config as follows:

[default]
token

This will link the cli to your SCA3S account. If you possess multiple SCA3S accounts you can add additional tokens with friendly names to the config file and utilise these tokens via the scope parameter in the cli.

Questions?

• read the wiki,
• raise an issue,
• raise a pull request,
• drop us an email.

Acknowledgements

This work has been supported in part

• by EPSRC via grant EP/R012288/1 (under the RISE programme), and
• by the AWS Cloud Credits for Research programme.