An on-chip glitchy-clock generator for testing fault injection attacks

S Endo, T Sugawara, N Homma, T Aoki… - Journal of Cryptographic …, 2011 - Springer
S Endo, T Sugawara, N Homma, T Aoki, A Satoh
Journal of Cryptographic Engineering, 2011Springer
This paper presents a glitchy-clock generator integrated in FPGA for evaluating fault
injection attacks and their countermeasures on cryptographic modules. The proposed
generator exploits clock management capabilities, which are common in modern FPGAs, to
generate clock signal with temporal voltage spike. The shape and timing of the glitchy-clock
cycle are configurable at run time. The proposed generator can be embedded in a single
FPGA without any external instrument (eg, a pulse generator and a variable power supply) …
Abstract
This paper presents a glitchy-clock generator integrated in FPGA for evaluating fault injection attacks and their countermeasures on cryptographic modules. The proposed generator exploits clock management capabilities, which are common in modern FPGAs, to generate clock signal with temporal voltage spike. The shape and timing of the glitchy-clock cycle are configurable at run time. The proposed generator can be embedded in a single FPGA without any external instrument (e.g., a pulse generator and a variable power supply). Such integration enables reliable and reproducible fault injection experiments. In this paper, we examine the characteristics of the proposed generator through experiments on Side-channel Attack Standard Evaluation Board (SASEBO). The result shows that the timing of the glitches can be controlled at the step of about 0.17 ns. We also demonstrate its application to the safe-error attack against an RSA processor.
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