Physical attacks on pairing-based cryptography / Peter Günther ; Supervisor: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Johannes Blömer. Paderborn, 2016
Content
- Introduction
- The story of Alice and Bob
- Modern cryptography: from fuzzy to fussy
- The real world: getting physical
- Pairing-based cryptography
- Thesis statement and contribution
- Publications related to this thesis
- Organization of this thesis
- Mathematical background
- Pairing-based cryptography
- Side-channel attacks on pairings
- Introduction
- Analysis of the Tate pairing in affine coordinates
- Analysis of the Ate pairing in affine coordinates
- Analysis of pairings in projective coordinates
- Framework for the analysis of fault attacks on pairings
- Introduction
- Description of the framework
- Background information on each step of the framework
- Application of the framework to previous attacks
- New fault attacks on pairings
- Singular curve point decompression fault attacks
- Introduction
- Attacks for curves with j-invariant 0
- Attack for general curves
- Concrete applications of our attacks
- Countermeasures
- Practical realization of our fault attacks
- Introduction
- Experimental setup
- General strategy for second order fault attacks
- Target device and implementation
- Second-order faults on the pairing computation
- Singular curve attack on BLS signatures
- Conclusion and future work
- Numerical examples
- Acronyms
- Notation
- Bibliography