On the importance of checking cryptographic protocols for faults

  • Authors:
  • Dan Boneh;Richard A. DeMillo;Richard J. Lipton

  • Affiliations:
  • Math and Cryptography Research Group, Bellcore, Morristown, NJ;Math and Cryptography Research Group, Bellcore, Morristown, NJ;Math and Cryptography Research Group, Bellcore, Morristown, NJ and Princeton University

  • Venue:
  • EUROCRYPT'97 Proceedings of the 16th annual international conference on Theory and application of cryptographic techniques
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

We present a theoretical model for breaking various cryptographic schemes by taking advantage of random hardware faults. We show how to attack certain implementations of RSA and Rabin signatures. We also show how various authentication protocols, such as Fiat-Shamir and Schnorr, can be broken using hardware faults.