Description
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) is believed to be unbreakable in the black box model, where the cryptanalyst has access to inputs and outputs only. However, it is not enough if the cryptosystem is embedded on a device that is physically accessible to potential attackers. In addition to inputs and outputs, the attacker can study the physical behaviour of the device such as the execution time or the power consumption. These attacks are called side-channel attacks.<br/> In this talk we present some attacks we called Same-Values Analysis. The attacks are named after the same principle: they take advantage of same values occurring within an Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication (ECSM). They differ from the targeted implementation or from the method used to detect the occurrence of the same values. In the first part of the talk, we analyse the Unified Formulae and the Side-Channel Atomicity countermeasures. These countermeasures permit to protect against one of the first side-channel attack on ECC: the Simple Power Analysis. We show that these coutermeasures bring vulnerabilities since they succumbs to some of our Same-Values Analysis. The attacks are powerful since the attacker does not need to know the input or output point of the ECSM. Moreover, only a single trace is required to recover all bits of the scalar.<br/> In the second part, we focus on another Same-Values Analysis. It exploits the occurrence of particular points. These points verify that, within an elliptic curve operation (e.g. an addition or a doubling), two distinct intermediate variables have the same values. The attacker chooses the suitable base point such that the particular point will occur during the ECSM only if some conditions of the scalar are met.
Prochains exposés
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Lie algebras and the security of cryptosystems based on classical varieties in disguise
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In 2006, de Graaf et al. proposed a strategy based on Lie algebras for finding a linear transformation in the projective linear group that connects two linearly equivalent projective varieties defined over the rational numbers. Their method succeeds for several families of “classical” varieties, such as Veronese varieties, which are known to have large automorphism groups. In this talk, we[…]-
Cryptography
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Some applications of linear programming to Dilithium
Orateur : Paco AZEVEDO OLIVEIRA - Thales & UVSQ
Dilithium is a signature algorithm, considered post-quantum, and recently standardized under the name ML-DSA by NIST. Due to its security and performance, it is recommended in most use cases. During this presentation, I will outline the main ideas behind two studies, conducted in collaboration with Andersson Calle-Vierra, Benoît Cogliati, and Louis Goubin, which provide a better understanding of[…] -
Wagner’s Algorithm Provably Runs in Subexponential Time for SIS^∞
Orateur : Johanna Loyer - Inria Saclay
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Cryptography
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CryptoVerif: a computationally-sound security protocol verifier
Orateur : Bruno Blanchet - Inria
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Cryptography
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Structured-Seed Local Pseudorandom Generators and their Applications
Orateur : Nikolas Melissaris - IRIF
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Cryptography
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