• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.211-218
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose a fault injection attack on AES-CMAC, which is defined by IETF. The fault assumption used in this attack is based on that introduced at FDTC'05. This attack can recover the 128-bit secret key of AES-CMAC by using only small number of fault injections. This result is the first known key recovery attack result on AES-CMAC.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.1071-1078
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• 2018

Recently, a family of lightweight block ciphers CHAM that has effective performance on resource-constrained devices is proposed. The CHAM uses a stateless-on-the-fly key schedule method which can reduce the key storage areas. Furthermore, the core design of CHAM is based on ARX(Addition, Rotation and XOR) operations which can enhance the computational performance. Nevertheless, we point out that the CHAM algorithm may be vulnerable to the fault injection attack which can reveal 4 round keys and derive the secret key from them. As a simulation result, the proposed fault injection attack can extract the secret key of CHAM-128/128 block cipher using about 24 correct-faulty cipher text pairs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.51-59
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• 2009

The CRT-RSA cryptosystem is very vulnerable to fault insertion attacks in which an attacker can extract the secret prime factors p, q of modulus N by inserting an error during the computational operation on the cryptographic chip. In this paper, after implementing the CRT-RSA cryptosystem, we try to extract the secret key embedded in commercial microcontroller using optical injection tools such as laser beam or camera flash. As a result, we make sure that the commercial microcontroller is very vulnerable to fault insertion attacks using laser beam and camera flash, and can apply the prime factorization attack on CRT-RSA Cryptosystem.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.859-865
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• 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 and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.76-89
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a novel optical fault detection scheme for RSA hardware based on Montgomery exponentiation, which can effectively detect optical fault injection during the exponent calculation. To protect the RSA hardware from the optical fault injection attack, we implemented integrity check logic for memory and optical fault detection logic for Montgomery-based multiplier. The proposed scheme is considered to be safe from various type of attack and it can be implemented with no additional operation time and small area overhead which is less than 3%.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.434-442
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• 2011

This paper presents a practical differential fault analysis method for the faulty Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with a reduced round by means of a semi-invasive fault injection. To verify our proposal, we implement the AES software on the ATmega128 microcontroller as recommended in the standard document FIPS 197. We reduce the number of rounds using a laser beam injection in the experiment. To deduce the initial round key, we perform an exhaustive search for possible key bytes associated with faulty ciphertexts. Based on the simulation result, our proposal extracts the AES 128-bit secret key in less than 10 hours with 10 pairs of plaintext and faulty ciphertext.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.27-33
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• 2011

At FDTC'05 and CISC-W'10, the authors showed that if they decrease the number of rounds of AES and Triple-DES by using the fault injections, it is possible to recover the secret key of the target algorithms, respectively. In this paper, we propose a key recovery attack on HMAC by using the main idea of these attacks. This attack is applicable to HMAC based on MD-family hash functions and can recover the secret key with the negligible computational complexity. Particularly, the attack result on HMAC-SHA-2 is the first known key recovery attack result on this algorithm.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.709-717
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• 2012

The round reduction on block cipher is a fault injection attack in which an attacker inserts temporary errors in cryptographic devices and extracts a secret key by reducing the number of operational round. In this paper, we proposed an improved round reduction method to retrieve master keys by injecting a fault during operation of loop statement in the Triple DES. Using laser fault injection experiment, we also verified that the proposed attack could be applied to a pure microprocessor ATmega 128 chip in which the Triple DES algorithm was implemented. Compared with previous attack method which is required 9 faulty-correct cipher text pairs and some exhaustive searches, the proposed one could extract three 56-bit secret keys with just 5 faulty cipher texts.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.551-561
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• 2018

As the computational technology using quantum computing has been developed, several threats on cryptographic systems are recently increasing. Therefore, many researches on post-quantum cryptosystems which can withstand the analysis attacks using quantum computers are actively underway. Nevertheless, the lattice-based NTRU system, one of the post-quantum cryptosystems, is pointed out that it may be vulnerable to the fault injection attack which uses the weakness of implementation of NTRU. In this paper, we investigate the fault injection attacks and their previous countermeasures on the NTRU signature system and propose a secure and efficient countermeasure to defeat it. As a simulation result, the proposed countermeasure has high fault detection ratio and low implementation costs.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.91-100
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• 2011

The Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (Triple DES) is an international standard of block cipher, which composed of two encryption processes and one decryption process of DES to increase security level. In this paper, we proposed a Differential Fault Analysis (DFA) attack to retrieve secret keys using reduction of last round execution for each DES process in the Triple DES by fault injections. From the simulation result for the proposed attack method, we could extract three 56-bit secret keys using exhaustive search attack for $2^{24}$ candidate keys which are refined from about 9 faulty-correct cipher text pairs. Using laser fault injection experiment, we also verified that the proposed DFA attack could be applied to a pure microprocessor ATmega 128 chip in which the Triple DES algorithm was implemented.