Improving Smart Card Security Using Self-Timed Circuits

  • Authors:
  • Paul Cunningham;Ross Anderson;Robert Mullins;George Taylor;Simon Moore

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ASYNC '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Asynchronus Circuits and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We demonstrate how 1-of-n encoded speed-independent circuits provide a good framework for constructing smart card functions that are resistant to side channel attacks and fault injection. A novel alarm propagation technique is also introduced. These techniques have been used to produce a prototype smart card chip: a 16-bit secure processor with Montgomery modular exponentiator and smart card UART.