Title
SPFA: SFA on Multiple Persistent Faults
Abstract
For classical fault analysis, a transient fault is required to be injected during runtime, e.g., only at a specific round. Instead, Persistent Fault Analysis (PFA) introduces a powerful class of fault attacks that allows for a fault to be present throughout the whole execution. One limitation of original PFA as introduced by Zhang et al. at CHES'18 is that the adversary needs know (or brute-force) the faulty values prior to the analysis. While this was addressed at a follow-up work at CHES'20, the solution is only applicable to a single faulty value. Instead, we use the potency of Statistical Fault Analysis (SFA) in the persistent fault setting, presenting Statistical Persistent Fault Analysis (SPFA) as a more general approach of PFA. As a result, any or even a multitude of unknown faults that cause an exploitable bias in the targeted round can be used to recover the cipher's secret key. Indeed, the undesired faults in the other rounds that occur due the persistent nature of the attack converge to a uniform distribution as required by SFA. We verify the effectiveness of our attack against LED and AES.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/FDTC51366.2020.00014
2020 Workshop on Fault Detection and Tolerance in Cryptography (FDTC)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
fault attack,persistent fault attack,statistical fault analysis
Conference
978-1-7281-9563-6
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
12
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Susanne Engels1161.77
Falk Schellenberg2276.05
Christof Paar33794442.62