Low voltage fault attacks to AES

Author

Barenghi, Alessandro ; Bertoni, Guido M. ; Breveglieri, Luca ; Pellicioli, Mauro ; Pelosi, Gerardo

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Elettron. e Inf., Politec. di Milano, Milan, Italy

fYear

2010

fDate

13-14 June 2010

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

12

Abstract

This paper presents a new fault based attack on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with any key length, together with its practical validation through the use of low voltage induced faults. The CPU running the attacked algorithm is the ARM926EJ-S: a 32-bit processor widely deployed in computer peripherals, telecommunication appliances and low power portable devices. We prove the practical feasibility of this attack through inducing faults in the computation of the AES algorithm running on a full fledged Linux 2.6 operating system targeted to two implementations of the ARM926EJ-S on commercial development boards.

Keywords

Linux; cryptography; system-on-chip; AES algorithm; ARM926EJ processor; Linux 2.6 operating system; advanced encryption standard; low voltage fault attacks; Computer architecture; Computer peripherals; Cryptography; Hardware; Linux; Low voltage; Reduced instruction set computing; Registers; Reproducibility of results; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST), 2010 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7811-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HST.2010.5513121

Filename

5513121