A New Side-Channel Attack on RSA Prime Generation

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Finke;Max Gebhardt;Werner Schindler

  • Affiliations:
  • Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), Bonn, Germany 53175;Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), Bonn, Germany 53175;Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI), Bonn, Germany 53175

  • Venue:
  • CHES '09 Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We introduce and analyze a side-channel attack on a straight-forward implementation of the RSA key generation step. The attack exploits power information that allows to determine the number of the trial divisions for each prime candidate. Practical experiments are conducted, and countermeasures are proposed. For realistic parameters the success probability of our attack is in the order of 10---15 %.