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An on-chip glitchy-clock generator for testing fault injection attacks
- Source :
- Journal of Cryptographic Engineering. 1:265-270
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2011.
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Abstract
- This paper presents a glitchy-clock generator integrated in FPGA for evaluating fault injection attacks and their countermeasures on cryptographic modules. The proposed generator exploits clock management capabilities, which are common in modern FPGAs, to generate clock signal with temporal voltage spike. The shape and timing of the glitchy-clock cycle are configurable at run time. The proposed generator can be embedded in a single FPGA without any external instrument (e.g., a pulse generator and a variable power supply). Such integration enables reliable and reproducible fault injection experiments. In this paper, we examine the characteristics of the proposed generator through experiments on Side-channel Attack Standard Evaluation Board (SASEBO). The result shows that the timing of the glitches can be controlled at the step of about 0.17 ns. We also demonstrate its application to the safe-error attack against an RSA processor.
- Subjects :
- Generator (computer programming)
Computer Networks and Communications
business.industry
Clock signal
Computer science
Pulse generator
Cryptography
Fault injection
Embedded system
Voltage spike
Clock generator
Hardware_ARITHMETICANDLOGICSTRUCTURES
business
Field-programmable gate array
Software
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21908516 and 21908508
- Volume :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........8983916eb4084ffdcf87744933231d71