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Handbook of Information Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities, Prevention, Detection, and Management, Volume 3
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Handbook of Information Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities, Prevention, Detection, and Management, Volume 3

by Hossein Bidgoli
January 2006
Beginner
1152 pages
75h 49m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Handbook of Information Security: Threats, Vulnerabilities, Prevention, Detection, and Management, Volume 3

Fault Attacks

Hamid Choukri, Gemplus & University of Bordeaux, France

Michael Tunstall, Gemplus & Royal Holloway, University of London

Introduction

Fault Injection

Method of Fault Injection

Particle Accelerator

Variations in the Supply Voltage

Variation in the External Clock

Temperature

White Light

Laser Light

The Effects of Different Types of Faults

Destructive Faults

Provisional Faults

Fault Analysis

Transferring Secret Data

RSA

DES

The Java Sandbox

Countermeasures

Hardware

Software

Conclusion

Glossary

Cross References

References

Further Reading

INTRODUCTION

One of the first examples of faults being injected in a microchip was accidental. It was noticed that radioactive particles produced by elements present in the packaging material (May & Woods, 1978) caused faults in chips. Uranium-235, Uranium-238, and Thorium-230 was present that decays to Lead-206. The process released alpha particles that created a charge in sensitive areas of the chip causing bits to flip. These elements were only present in 2 or 3 parts per million, but this was sufficient to have an effect on the behavior of the chip.

Subsequent research included studying the effects of cosmic rays on semiconductors (Ziegler, 1979). Cosmic rays are weak at ground level because of the earth's atmosphere. The probability of a fault produced in an integrated circuit is therefore very small, but the more random access memory (RAM) a computer has, the higher the chance of a fault occurring (i.e., it becomes more likely that ...

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