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Fault Injection Attacks on RSA and CSIDH

Abstract

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Fault injection attacks are a powerful technique that intentionally induces faults during computations to leak secret information. This thesis studies the fault injection attack techniques. The thesis first categorizes various fault attack methods by fault model and fault analysis and gives examples of the various fault attacks on symmetric key cryptosystems and public key cryptosystems. The thesis then demonstrates fault injection attacks on RSA-CRT and constant time CSIDH. The fault attack consists of two main components: fault modeling, which examines methods for injecting faults in a target device, and fault analysis, which analyzes the resulting faulty outputs to deduce secrets in each cryptosystem. The thesis aims to provide a comprehensive survey on fault attack research, directions for further study on securing real-world cryptosystems against fault injection attacks, testing fault injection attacks with RSA-CRT, and demonstrate and evaluate fault injection attacks on constant time CSIDH.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Master of Science
Level thesis:degree_level
masters
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Computer Engineering
Department dc:contributor.department
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Grantor dc:publisher
Virginia Tech
Year dc:date.issued
2024

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Chiu, TingHung
Chair dc:contributor.committeechair
  • Xiong, Wenjie
Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember
  • LeGrow, Jason Travis
  • Stavrou, Angelos

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • In Copyright
Language dc:language.iso
en

Identifiers

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Dc Identifier Other
vt_gsexam:39758
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/119010

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citation

Chiu, TingHung. Fault Injection Attacks on RSA and CSIDH. masters thesis, Virginia Tech, 2024. https://hdl.handle.net/10919/119010