Homological Fault Attack on AES Block Cipher and Its Countermeasures

Ning Shang; Jinpeng Zhang; Yaoling Ding; Caisen Chen; An Wang

doi:10.1007/978-981-15-3753-0_64

Homological Fault Attack on AES Block Cipher and Its Countermeasures

Ning Shang
, Jinpeng Zhang
, Yaoling Ding
, Caisen Chen
, An Wang^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

School of Cyberspace Science and Technology

Beijing Institute of Technology
Academy of Armored Force Engineering China
CAS - Institute of Information Engineering

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Abstract

As the physical security of hardware systems becomes more and more serious, a large number of physical attacks and countermeasures against on-chip cryptographic algorithms are proposed. Clock glitch injection is an easy-to-implement and effective fault type. This paper presents a novel clock glitch-based fault attack on hardware-implemented encryption algorithm called homological fault attack (HFA). It allows us to attack with coarse-grained clock glitches and can extract the key only by the plaintext and whether the encryption result is correct. At the same time, this paper carries out HFA experiment on AES-128 encryption algorithm implemented on FPGA in the real physical environment. Experimental results show that HFA can be used for serial and parallel implementation of AES hardware implementation. And this method can be easily extended to attack other block encryption algorithms.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019
Editors	Qi Liu, Xiaodong Liu, Lang Li, Hui-Huang Zhao, Huiyu Zhou
Publisher	Springer
Pages	655-665
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Print)	9789811537523
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3753-0_64
Publication status	Published - 2021
Event	9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019 - Changsha, China Duration: 18 Oct 2019 → 20 Oct 2019

Publication series

Name	Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume	1143
ISSN (Print)	2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)	2194-5365

Conference

Conference	9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019
Country/Territory	China
City	Changsha
Period	18/10/19 → 20/10/19

Keywords

Clock glitch
Hardware security
Homological fault attack

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Shang, N., Zhang, J., Ding, Y., Chen, C., & Wang, A. (2021). Homological Fault Attack on AES Block Cipher and Its Countermeasures. In Q. Liu, X. Liu, L. Li, H.-H. Zhao, & H. Zhou (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019 (pp. 655-665). (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1143). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3753-0_64

Shang, Ning ; Zhang, Jinpeng ; Ding, Yaoling et al. / Homological Fault Attack on AES Block Cipher and Its Countermeasures. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019. editor / Qi Liu ; Xiaodong Liu ; Lang Li ; Hui-Huang Zhao ; Huiyu Zhou. Springer, 2021. pp. 655-665 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing).

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Shang, N, Zhang, J, Ding, Y, Chen, C & Wang, A 2021, Homological Fault Attack on AES Block Cipher and Its Countermeasures. in Q Liu, X Liu, L Li, H-H Zhao & H Zhou (eds), Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol. 1143, Springer, pp. 655-665, 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019, Changsha, China, 18/10/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3753-0_64

Homological Fault Attack on AES Block Cipher and Its Countermeasures. / Shang, Ning; Zhang, Jinpeng; Ding, Yaoling et al.
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Networks, CENet2019. ed. / Qi Liu; Xiaodong Liu; Lang Li; Hui-Huang Zhao; Huiyu Zhou. Springer, 2021. p. 655-665 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; Vol. 1143).

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