Inverting the Final exponentiation of Tate pairings on ordinary elliptic curves using faults

Ronan Lashermes; Jacques Fournier; Louis Goubin

Paper 2015/152

Inverting the Final exponentiation of Tate pairings on ordinary elliptic curves using faults

Ronan Lashermes, Jacques Fournier, and Louis Goubin

Abstract

The calculation of the Tate pairing on ordinary curves involves two major steps: the Miller Loop (ML) followed by the Final Exponentiation (FE). The first step for achieving a full pairing inversion would be to invert this FE, which in itself is a mathematically difficult problem. To our best knowledge, most fault attack schemes proposed against pairing algorithms have mainly focussed on the ML. They solved, if at all, the inversion of the FE in some special `easy' cases or even showed that the complexity of the FE is an intrinsic countermeasure against a successful full fault attack on the Tate pairing. In this paper, we present a fault attack on the FE whereby the inversion of the final exponentiation becomes feasible using $3$ independent faults.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Public-key cryptography
Publication info: Published by the IACR in CHES 2013
Keywords: Tate pairing Ate pairing final exponentiation fault attacks
Contact author(s): ronan lashermes @ wanadoo fr
History: 2015-02-27: revised; 2015-02-27: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2015/152
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/152,
      author = {Ronan Lashermes and Jacques Fournier and Louis Goubin},
      title = {Inverting the Final exponentiation of Tate pairings on ordinary elliptic curves using faults},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/152},
      year = {2015},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/152}
}