Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2013/778

Multi-Stage Fault Attacks on Block Ciphers

Philipp Jovanovic and 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.

Category / Keywords: secret-key cryptography / Differential Fault Analysis; LED-128; lightweight block cipher; Multi-Stage Fault Attack; PRINCE;

Date: received 22 Nov 2013

Contact author: jovanovic at fim uni-passau de

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Version: 20131125:192248 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2013/778

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