Multi-Stage Fault Attacks on Block Ciphers

Philipp Jovanovic; Martin Kreuzer; Ilia Polian

Paper 2013/778

Multi-Stage Fault Attacks on Block Ciphers

Philipp Jovanovic, Martin Kreuzer, and Ilia Polian

Abstract

This paper introduces Multi-Stage Fault Attacks, which allow Differential Fault Analysis of block ciphers having independent subkeys. Besides the specification of an algorithm implementing the technique, we show concrete applications to LED-128 and PRINCE and demonstrate that in both cases approximately 3 to 4 fault-injections are enough to reconstruct the full 128-bit key.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Secret-key cryptography
Publication info: Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords: Differential Fault Analysis LED-128 lightweight block cipher Multi-Stage Fault Attack PRINCE
Contact author(s): jovanovic @ fim uni-passau de
History: 2013-11-25: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2013/778
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/778,
      author = {Philipp Jovanovic and Martin Kreuzer and Ilia Polian},
      title = {Multi-Stage Fault Attacks on Block Ciphers},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/778},
      year = {2013},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/778}
}