An introduction to implementation attacks and countermeasures

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Popp

  • Affiliations:
  • Graz University of Technology, Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications, Graz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • MEMOCODE'09 Proceedings of the 7th IEEE/ACM international conference on Formal Methods and Models for Codesign
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Implementation attacks pose a serious threat to the security of cryptographic algorithms and protocols. In such attacks, not the abstract descriptions of cryptographic methods are attacked but their practical realizations in cryptographic devices. This opens up a wide range of powerful attacks, which are introduced in this article. Also the main approaches to counteract implementation attacks are discussed.