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The Sorcerer?s Apprentice Guide to Fault Attacks

Authors:
Hagai Bar-El
Hamid Choukri
David Naccache
Michael Tunstall
Claire Whelan
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URL: http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/100
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Abstract: The effect of faults on electronic systems has been studied since the 1970s when it was noticed that radioactive particles caused errors in chips. This led to further research on the effect of charged particles on silicon, motivated by the aerospace industry who was becoming concerned about the effect of faults in airborn electronic systems. Since then various mechanisms for fault creation and propagation have been discovered and researched. This paper covers the various methods that can be used to induce faults in semiconductors and exploit such errors maliciously. Several examples of attacks stemming from the exploiting of faults are explained. Finally a series of countermeasures to thwart these attacks are described.
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@misc{eprint-2004-12073,
  title={The Sorcerer?s Apprentice Guide to Fault Attacks},
  booktitle={IACR Eprint archive},
  keywords={},
  url={http://eprint.iacr.org/2004/100},
  note={ cwhelan@computing.dcu.ie 12545 received 29 Apr 2004, last revised 7 May 2004},
  author={Hagai Bar-El and Hamid Choukri and David Naccache and Michael Tunstall and Claire Whelan},
  year=2004
}