DocumentCode
2581364
Title
On the Security of a Unified Countermeasure
Author
Joye, Marc
Author_Institution
Corporate Res., Security Lab., Thomson R&D France Technol. Group, Cesson-Sevigne
fYear
2008
fDate
10-10 Aug. 2008
Firstpage
87
Lastpage
91
Abstract
Implementation attacks are a major threat for cryptographic applications. Recently, Baek and Vasyltsov (ISPEC 2007) proposed a unified countermeasure for protecting elliptic curve implementations against a variety of implementation attacks, including differential power attacks and fault attacks. This paper studies the security of this countermeasure. In particular, it shows that the fault coverage is less than what was anticipated. Further security weaknesses are also pointed out.
Keywords
cryptography; cryptographic applications; differential power attacks; elliptic curve implementations; fault coverage; implementation attacks; unified countermeasure security; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Energy consumption; Equations; Fault diagnosis; Information security; Laboratories; Protection; Research and development; Statistical analysis; Elliptic curve cryptography; countermeasures; differential power attacks; fault attacks;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography, 2008. FDTC '08. 5th Workshop on
Conference_Location
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN
978-0-7695-3314-8
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/FDTC.2008.8
Filename
4599561
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