Securing the Elliptic Curve Montgomery Ladder against Fault Attacks

  • Authors:
  • Nevine Ebeid;Rob Lambert

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • FDTC '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The Montgomery ladder method of computing elliptic curve scalar multiplication is esteemed as an efficient algorithm, inherently resistant to simple side-channel attacks as well as to various fault attacks. In FDTC 08, Fouque \etal present an attack on the Montgomery ladder in the presence of a point validation countermeasure, when the $y$-coordinate is not used. In this paper, we present an efficient countermeasure that renders the algorithm resistant to this attack as well as to other known fault attacks.