[HiPEAC-announce] Webseminar "Fault injection attacks on cryptographic devices and countermeasures" by Israel Koren Thu 28, 12:00 CET

[Enric Morancho]

Dear colleague,

BSC-DAC-UPC invite you to attend online the following talk:

Title: Fault injection attacks on cryptographic devices and countermeasures
Speaker: Israel Koren (Professor of ECE, Umass Amherst)
Date: Thu 28, 12:00 CET
URL: http://www.ac.upc.edu/video/index,en.html

If you would like to ask questions to the speaker, please send an e-mail 
to seminar at hipeac.ac.upc.edu

Best regards,

Enric Morancho

Abstract

Numerous schemes for extracting the secret key out of cryptographic 
devices using side channel attacks have been developed. One of the most 
effective side channel attacks is through maliciously injecting faults 
into the device and observing the erroneous results produced by the 
device. In some extreme cases, a single fault injection experiment has 
been shown to be sufficient for retrieving the secret key.

In this talk we describe several fault injection attacks on symmetric 
key and public key ciphers and outline countermeasures that have been 
developed to protect cryptographic devices against such attacks. We then 
show that some of these countermeasures do not provide the desired 
protection, and even worse, they may make other side channel attacks 
easier to mount.

Bio

Israel Koren is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at 
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a fellow of the IEEE. He 
has been a consultant to companies like IBM, Analog Devices, Intel, AMD 
and National Semiconductors. His research interests include 
Fault-Tolerant systems, secure cryptographic devices, VLSI yield and 
reliability and Computer Arithmetic. He publishes extensively and has 
over 200 publications in refereed journals and conferences. He is the 
author of the textbook "Computer Arithmetic Algorithms," 2nd Edition, 
A.K. Peters, Ltd., 2002, a co-author of the textbook "Fault Tolerant 
Systems," Morgan-Kaufman, 2007. He co-founded in 2004 and co-organized
the annual workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography - 
FDTC, which has become the main conference for presenting new fault 
injection attacks and countermeasures.