• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.7
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• pp.68-75
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• 2013

Recently, there has been introduced various types of pairing computations to implement ID based cryptosystem for mobile ad hoc network. According to spreading the applications of pairing computations, various fault attacks have been proposed. Among them, a counter fault attack has been considered the strongest threat. Thus this paper proposes a new countermeasure to prevent the counter fault attack on Miller's algorithm. The proposed method is able to reduce the possibility of fault propagation by a random index of intermediate values. Additionally, it is difficult to challenge fault attacks on the proposed method since a simple side channel leakage of 'if' branch is eliminated.