DocumentCode
2581346
Title
Error Detection for Borrow-Save Adders Dedicated to ECC Unit
Author
Francq, Julien ; Rigaud, Jean-Baptiste ; Manet, Pascal ; Tria, Assia ; Tisserand, Arnaud
Author_Institution
Ecole des Mines de St.-Etienne, Gardanne
fYear
2008
fDate
10-10 Aug. 2008
Firstpage
77
Lastpage
86
Abstract
Differential Fault Analysis (DFA) is a real threat for elliptic curve cryptosystems. This paper describes an elliptic curve cryptoprocessor unit resistant against fault injection. This resistance is provided by the use of parity preserving logic gates in the operating structure of the ECC unit, which is based on borrow-save adders. The proposed countermeasure provides a high coverage fault detection and induces an acceptable area overhead (+ 38 %).
Keywords
cryptography; fault diagnosis; ECC Unit; borrow-save adders; differential fault analysis; elliptic curve cryptoprocessor unit; elliptic curve cryptosystem; error detection; fault detection; fault injection; Circuit faults; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Error correction codes; Fault detection; Fault diagnosis; Fault tolerance; Logic gates; Temperature; Voltage;
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.2008.17
Filename
4599560
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