Power attack and evaluation on elliptic curve cryptosystem in a commercial smart card

Annv Liu; An Wang; Yongyin Dong; Ying Shi; Caisen Chen; Guoshuang Zhang

doi:10.1109/CyberC.2019.00067

Power attack and evaluation on elliptic curve cryptosystem in a commercial smart card

Annv Liu, An Wang^*, Yongyin Dong, Ying Shi, Caisen Chen, Guoshuang Zhang

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School of Cyberspace Science and Technology

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Abstract

Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is a widely used cryptographic algorithm in our life. Although its theory has become one of the focuses, it is difficult to ensure its security during the process of implementation. One can break it easily by using side-channel attack such as power attack. In this paper, a key recovery platform is built with computer, filter, signal acquisition module, oscilloscope, and so on. Then, we implement the simple power attack on ECC, and employ self-correlation analysis to make it easy to recover the secret key automatically. Finally, some relevant and effective countermeasures are suggested against power attacks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	354-359
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728125411
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberC.2019.00067
Publication status	Published - Oct 2019
Event	2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019 - Guilin, China Duration: 17 Oct 2019 → 19 Oct 2019

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Name	Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019

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Conference	2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019
Country/Territory	China
City	Guilin
Period	17/10/19 → 19/10/19

Keywords

Elliptic Curve Cryptography
Self-correlation analysis
Side-channel analysis
Simple power attack

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Liu, A., Wang, A., Dong, Y., Shi, Y., Chen, C., & Zhang, G. (2019). Power attack and evaluation on elliptic curve cryptosystem in a commercial smart card. In Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019 (pp. 354-359). Article 8946105 (Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberC.2019.00067

Liu, Annv ; Wang, An ; Dong, Yongyin et al. / Power attack and evaluation on elliptic curve cryptosystem in a commercial smart card. Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. pp. 354-359 (Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019).

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Liu, A, Wang, A, Dong, Y, Shi, Y, Chen, C & Zhang, G 2019, Power attack and evaluation on elliptic curve cryptosystem in a commercial smart card. in Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019., 8946105, Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 354-359, 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019, Guilin, China, 17/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/CyberC.2019.00067

Power attack and evaluation on elliptic curve cryptosystem in a commercial smart card. / Liu, Annv; Wang, An; Dong, Yongyin et al.
Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. p. 354-359 8946105 (Proceedings - 2019 International Conference on Cyber-Enabled Distributed Computing and Knowledge Discovery, CyberC 2019).

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