• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.23 no.5
• /
• pp.859-865
• /
• 2013

Esmbedded devices such as smart cards and electronic passports highly demand security of sensitive data. So, the secure implementation of the cryptographic system against various side-channel attacks are becoming more important. In particular, the fault injection attack is one of the threats to the cryptosystem and can destroy the whole system only with single pair of the plain and cipher texts. Therefore, the implementors must consider seriously the attack. Several techniques for preventing fault injection attacks were introduced to a variety of the cryptosystem, But the countermeasures are still inefficient to be applied to the classical RSA cryptosystem. This paper introduces an efficient countermeasure against the fault injection attack for the classical RSA cryptosystem, which is based on the famous Fermat's theorem. The proposed countermeasure has the advantage that it has less computational overhead, compared with the previous countermeasures.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.22 no.1
• /
• pp.33-41
• /
• 2012

A differential fault analysis(DFA) is one of the most important side channel attacks on block ciphers. Most block ciphers, such as DES, AES, ARIA, SEED and so on., have been analysed by this attack. PRESENT is a 64-bit block cipher with 80/128-bit secret keys and has a 31-round SP-network. So far, several DFAs on PRESENT have been proposed. These attacks recovered 80, 128-bit secret keys of PRESENT with 8~64 fault injections. respectively. In this paper, we propose an improved DFA on PRESENT-80/128. Our attack can reduce the complexity of exhaustive search of PRESENT-80(resp. 128) to on average 1.7(resp. $2^{22.3}$) with 2(resp. 3) fault injections, From these results, our attack results are superior to known DFAs on PRESENT.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.19 no.5
• /
• pp.195-200
• /
• 2009

CRT-based RSA algorithm, which was implemented on smartcard, microcontroller and so on, leakages secret primes p and q by fault attacks using laser injection, EM radiation, ion beam injection, voltage glitch injection and so on. Among the many fault injection methods, voltage glitch can be injected to target device without any modification, so more practical. In this paper, we made an experiment on the fault injection attack using abnormal source voltage. As a result, CRT-RSA's secret prime p and q are disclosed by fault attack with voltage glitch injection which was introduced by several previous papers, and also succeed the fault attack with source voltage blocking for proper period.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.21 no.3
• /
• pp.11-25
• /
• 2011

The Miller algorithm is employed in the typical pairing computation such as Weil, Tate and Ate for implementing ID based cryptosystem. By analyzing the Mrabet's attack that is one of fault attacks against the Miller algorithm, this paper presents au efficient fault attack in Affine coordinate system, it is the most basic coordinates for construction of elliptic curve. The proposed attack is the effective model of a count check fault attack, it is verified to work well by practical fault injection experiments and can omit the probabilistic analysis that is required in the previous counter fault model.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.22 no.5
• /
• pp.1009-1017
• /
• 2012

The fault injection attack has been developed to extract the secret key which is embedded in a crypto module by injecting errors during the encryption process. Especially, an attacker can find master key of AES using injection of just one byte. In this paper, we proposed a countermeasure resistant to the these fault attacks by checking the differences between input and output. Using computer simulation, we also verified that the proposed AES implementation resistant to fault attack shows better fault detection ratio than previous other methods and has small computational overheads.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.20 no.3
• /
• pp.135-140
• /
• 2010

The computation using Chinese Remainder Theorem in RSA cryptosystem is well suited in the digital signature or decryption processing due to its low computational load compared to the case of general RSA without CRT. Since the RSA-CRT algorithm is vulnerable to many fault insertion attacks, some countermeasures against them were proposed. Among several countermeasures, Yen et al. proposed two schemes based on fault propagation method. Unfortunately, a new vulnerability was founded in FDTC 2006 conference. To improve the original schemes, Kim et al. recently proposed a new countermeasure in which they adopt the AND operation for fault propagation. In this paper, we show that the proposed scheme using AND operation without checking procedure is also vulnerable to fault insertion attack with chosen messages.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.23 no.3
• /
• pp.371-381
• /
• 2013

An encryption algorithm is executed to supply data confidentiality using a secret key which is embedded in a crypto device. However, the fault injection attack has been developed to extract the secret key by injecting errors during the encryption processes. Especially, an attacker can find the secret key of block cipher ARIA using about 33 faulty outputs. In this paper, we proposed a countermeasure resistant to the these fault injection attacks by checking the difference value between input and output informations. Using computer simulation, we also verified that the proposed countermeasure has excellent fault detection rate and negligible computational overhead.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.24 no.6
• /
• pp.1117-1127
• /
• 2014

Differential Fault Analysis(DFA) is widely known for one of the most powerful method for analyzing block cipher. it is applicable to block cipher such as DES, AES, ARIA, SEED, and lightweight block cipher such as PRESENT, HIGHT. In this paper, we introduce a differential fault analysis on the lightweight block cipher LEA for the first time. we use 300 chosen fault injection ciphertexts to recover 128-bit master key. As a result of our attack, we found a full master key within an average of 40 minutes on a standard PC environment.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
• /
• v.22 no.1
• /
• pp.3-10
• /
• 2012

In this paper, we propose a fault injection attack on stream cipher A5/3 used in GSM. The fault assumption of this attack is based on that of fault injection attacks proposed in FDTC'05 and CISC-W'10. This attack is applicable to A5/3 supporting 64/128-bit session key, respectively, and can recover the session key by using a small number of fault injections. These works are the first known key recovery attack results on A5/3.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
• /
• v.9 no.4
• /
• pp.1493-1515
• /
• 2015

A smart meter is one of the core components in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) that is responsible for providing effective control and monitor of electrical energy consumptions. The multifunction tasks that a smart meter carries out such as facilitating two-way communication between utility providers and consumers, managing metering data, delivering anomalies reports, analyzing fault and power quality, simply show that there are huge amount of data exchange in smart metering networks (SMNs). These data are prone to security threats due to high dependability of SMNs on Internet-based communication, which is highly insecure. Therefore, there is a need to identify all possible security threats over this network and propose suitable countermeasures for securing the communication between smart meters and utility provider office. This paper studies the architecture of the smart grid communication networks, focuses on smart metering networks and discusses how such networks can be vulnerable to security attacks. This paper also presents current mechanisms that have been used to secure the smart metering networks from specific type of attacks in SMNs. Moreover, we highlight several open issues related to the security and privacy of SMNs which we anticipate could serve as baseline for future research directions.