THE VIDEO SHELF · chip decapping
Defcon 21 - Decapping Chips The Strike Easy Hard Way
A DEF CON 21 talk by Adam Laurie and Zac Franken on decapping chips, covering how to remove chip packaging and image the die to read out contents such as ROM.
Why HN readers recommended it
Regarded as a favorite practical walkthrough of chip decapping, linked in threads on die shots, hardware backdoors and key extraction.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- HackersOnBoard
- Topic
- chip decapping
- Format
- talk
- Level
- advanced
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 3
- HN mentions in dataset
- 6
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2014–2025
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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One of my favourite talks is Decapping Chips the Hard Way by Adam Laurie and Zac Franken: [VIDEO] That was 8 years ago
amboar on Hacker News · 2021-11
In Full key extraction of Nvidia TSECThere was also a great talk at Defcon 21 (last year) walking through a similar process all the way to using a picture of the ROM and image recognition to pull binary data. The first half is about building the lab to do this kind …
amckenna on Hacker News · 2014-03
In Depackaging the Nintendo 3DS CPUI really like this one Defcon talk on chip decapping [1]. It's a pretty nasty process but absolutely one you can do on your driveway (poor man's fume hood, don't tell the EPA) at home. You can then just use a standard front lit microscope …
sweetjuly on Hacker News · 2023-01
In Casio-F-91W die-shot
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