Title
When clocks fail: on critical paths and clock faults
Abstract
Whilst clock fault attacks are known to be a serious security threat, an in-depth explanation of such faults still seems to be put in order. This work provides a theoretical analysis, backed by practical experiments, explaining when and how clock faults occur. Understanding and modeling the chain of events following a transient clock alteration allows to accurately predict faulty circuit behavior. A prediction fully confirmed by injecting variable-duration faults at predetermined clock cycles. We illustrate the process by successfully attacking an fpga aes implementation using a dll-based fpga platform (one-bit fault attack).
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1007/978-3-642-12510-2_13
CARDIS
Keywords
Field
DocType
clock fault,fpga aes implementation,faulty circuit behavior,variable-duration fault,critical path,dll-based fpga platform,transient clock alteration,in-depth explanation,whilst clock fault attack,one-bit fault attack,clock cycle,delay locked loop,aes
Clock gating,Timing failure,Clock drift,Computer security,Computer science,Clock domain crossing,Real-time computing,Clock skew,Synchronous circuit,Digital clock manager,Cycles per instruction,Embedded system
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
6035
0302-9743
3-642-12509-3
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
50
2.15
12
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michel Agoyan1877.51
Jean-Max Dutertre231329.14
David Naccache31920213.34
Bruno Robisson434422.03
Assia Tria529623.36