Cipher Instruction Search Attack on the Bus-Encryption Security Microcontroller DS5002FP

  • Authors:
  • Markus G. Kuhn

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Computers
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

A widely used bus-encryption microprocessor is vulnerable to a new practical attack. This type of processor decrypts on-the-fly while fetching code and data, which are stored in RAM only in encrypted form. The attack allows easy, unauthorized access to the decrypted memory content.