Title :
Enhancement of simple electro-magnetic attacks by pre-characterization in frequency domain and demodulation techniques
Author :
Meynard, Olivier ; Réal, Denis ; Flament, Florent ; Guilley, Sylvain ; Homma, Naofumi ; Danger, Jean-Luc
Author_Institution :
Dept. COMELEC, TELECOM ParisTech, Paris, France
Abstract :
SPA/SEMA (Simple Power/Electro-magnetic Analysis) attacks performed on public-key cryptographic modules implemented on FPGA platforms are well known from the theoretical point of view. However, the practical aspect is not often developed in the literature. But researchers know that these attacks do not always work, like in the case of an RSA accelerator. Indeed, SEMA on RSA needs to make a difference between square and multiply which use the same logic; this contrast with SEMA on ECC, which is easier since doubling and add that are two different operations from the hardware point of view. In this paper, we wonder what to do if a SEMA fails to succeed on a device. Does it mean that no attack is possible? We show that hardware demodulation techniques allow the recording of a signal with more information on the leakage than a raw recording. Then, we propose a generic and fast method enabling to find out demodulation frequencies. The effectiveness of our methods is demonstrated through actual experiments using an RSA processor on the SASEBO FPGA board. We show cases where only demodulated signals permit to defeat RSA.
Keywords :
demodulation; field programmable gate arrays; frequency-domain analysis; public key cryptography; FPGA platforms; RSA accelerator; SASEBO FPGA board; SPA-SEMA attacks; demodulation frequencies; electromagnetic attacks; frequency domain; hardware demodulation techniques; public key cryptographic modules; simple-power-electromagnetic analysis attacks; Antenna measurements; Clocks; Demodulation; Field programmable gate arrays; Frequency domain analysis; Mutual information; Receivers; Demodulation; Modular Exponentiation; Mutual Information; Simple Electro-Magnetic Analysis;
Conference_Titel :
Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference & Exhibition (DATE), 2011
Conference_Location :
Grenoble
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-208-0
DOI :
10.1109/DATE.2011.5763163