Hi, I am g0mb4ck (pronounced "gomb-ack"). My main focus is on fault injection and side-channel attacks, which are ways to test and break hardware security. Fault injection means intentionally causing glitches—like messing with voltage or the clock or em signals—to make a device malfunction. This helps uncover weak spots where security features can be bypassed or sensitive data leaked. Side-channel attacks don’t attack the code directly. Instead, they look at things like power use, electromagnetic signals, or timing differences to figure out secret info without breaking the encryption itself.
My goal is to really understand how these attacks work so I can help design better defenses.
I have an utmost fascination with the physical world, electromagnetic waves and Maxwell Laws :) I like to break hardware, build it and also repair it (I love soldering <3) :D
The philosophy behind LunarLabs. LunarLabs Project is a future hardware security endeavour with a clear and deep focus on hardware security R&D. This blog is a way to introduce it to the world as it is given birth to. The flabbergasting shape of the gömböc is not only my own "hacker name" inspiration but also inspiration to the whole project. It embodies the unlikely instance of a being - being - pulled down by adversities but yet still lingering on standing up. And that resilience should be not only the goal of humans but also the goal of CPU, MCU and SoC designers.
If you want to collaborate on hardware security projects with me I would be very glad to hear from you on g0mb4ck@gmail.com or milena.mangiola@cnit.it (for more academic researches).