RP2350 Hacking Challenge 2 – Deadline extended to 31 December 2025
28. November 2025 | Planegg
Raspberry Pi has extended the RP2350 Hacking Challenge 2 deadline to 31 December 2025 (midnight UK time). The challenge focuses on testing the resilience of its new SCA-hardened AES library against side-channel attacks.
Challenge update
Launched in the summer, the second RP2350 Hacking Challenge invites researchers to analyze Raspberry Pi’s new SCA-protected AES implementation.
Several teams are already working on attacks, but the hardened library has so far resisted all attempts. To allow continued research, the submission deadline has been extended to 31 December 2025.
Background
As part of the Pico SDK 2.2.0 release, Raspberry Pi introduced a tool enabling developers to AES-encrypt software and data stored in external flash and securely decrypt them into on-chip SRAM at boot.
Since many AES implementations are vulnerable to side-channel attacks, the new library was engineered with additional countermeasures to prevent key leakage through power or electromagnetic analysis.
Results and highlights will be published after the new deadline. Visit the RP2350 Hacking Challenge 2 page for details.
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