Paper 2017/057
Single--Trace Template Attack on the DES Round Keys of a Recent Smart Card
Mathias Wagner and Stefan Heyse
Abstract
A new template attack on the DES key scheduling is demonstrated that allows recovery of a sufficiently large portion of the DES key of a recent and widely deployed smart card chip with a {\it single} EM (electromagnetic) trace during the Exploitation Phase. Depending on the use case, the remainder of the key may then be found with reasonable brute--force effort on a PC. Remaining rest entropies as low as $\approx 19$ bits have been found for some single--trace attacks, meaning that effectively 37 bits were recovered in a single trace. The nature of single--trace attacks has it that conventional software countermeasures are rendered useless by this attack, and thus the only remaining remedy is a hardware redesign.
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Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- Keywords
- DESTDESTemplate AttackSide-channel AttackSmart CardSCAblock cipher
- Contact author(s)
- mathias wagner @ nxp com
- History
- 2017-01-31: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2017/057
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/057,
author = {Mathias Wagner and Stefan Heyse},
title = {Single--Trace Template Attack on the {DES} Round Keys of a Recent Smart Card},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2017/057},
year = {2017},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/057}
}
