- Understand where real-world systems expose physical side channels and how to exploit them
- How and why Simple Power Analysis and Differential Power Analysis work
- Understand the security risks posed by physical side-channel attackers as well as sophisticated software-based attackers
- Understand how these attacks can be mitigated.

- Episode 1: A Single Trace

Daniel breaks his student card that lets him enter the student lab. Fortunately, they just learned about physical side-channel attacks and so Daniel comes up with a plan how to get his entry back, with simple power analysis.

- Episode 2: What a Difference a Trace Makes

After deciding that simple power analysis is too simple, we now break into the lab again, but this time with a more realistic attack, namely differential power analysis.

- Episode 3: Mask, Hide and Seek

The flatmates realize that differential power analysis is difficult to mitigate, and learn about what can be done and how effective it is. In the end, they figure out that masking with a higher number of shares is the solution they were looking for.

- Episode 4: Where do we go from here? Jonas realizes that the branch predictor could be an interesting element to mount attacks on the test system. He figures out that the branch predictor exposes side-channel information.

- Episode 5: Prefetch Me If You Can

The flatmates realize that some instructions need to translate virtual addresses to physical ones. As this is a quite long and complicated task, they suspect that there might be some timing side channel in there.