Term · Safety & Security
Laser fault injection
A semi-invasive attack that decapsulates a die and pulses a focused laser at a chosen location and instant to flip specific bits or corrupt a targeted operation, giving far more spatial precision than voltage or clock glitching.
- Also known as
- Optical fault injection, LFI
- Type
- Term
- Domain
- Safety & Security, Hardware attacks
Notes
Backside thinning and infrared lasers make it effective even through modern multi-layer metal stacks.
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