Being at the ECRYPT VAMPIRE research retreat in Bristol at the moment, I have just become aware of become aware of OpenSCA, a toolbox by Elisabeth Oswald for experimenting with side-channel attacks. Unfortunately, although being open-source, it is built upon the commercial (and expensive, I might add) Matlab instead of an open-source mathematics package like SAGE. The reason for that seems to be that MATLAB offers toolboxes like the Instrument Control Toolbox that allow for easy communication and data exchange with measurement instruments. I wonder whether there are any Python packages that would allow you to do the same from within SAGE…