Universal Exponentiation Algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Christophe Clavier;Marc Joye

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • CHES '01 Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Very few countermeasures are known to protect an exponentiation against simple side-channel analyses. Moreover, all of them are heuristic. This paper presents a universal exponentiation algorithm. By tying the exponent to a corresponding addition chain, our algorithm can virtually execute any exponentiation method. Our aim is to transfer the security of the exponentiation method being implemented to the exponent itself. As a result, we hopefully tend to reconcile the provable security notions of modern cryptography with real-world implementations of exponentiation-based cryptosystems.