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2004
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Virtual Analysis and Reduction of Side-Channel Vulnerabilities of Smartcards

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Virtual Analysis and Reduction of Side-Channel Vulnerabilities of Smartcards
This paper focuses on the usability of the PINPAS tool. The PINPAS tool is an instruction-level interpreter for smartcard assembler languages, augmented with facilities to study side-channel vulnerabilities. The tool can simulate side-channel leakage and has a suite of utilities to analyze this. The usage of the tool, for the analysis of a cryptographic algorithm is illustrated using the standard AES and RSA. Vulnerabilities of the implementations are identified and protective measures added. It is argued, that the tool can be instrumental for the design and realization of secure smartcard implementations in a systematic way. Keywords. smartcard, side-channel attack, power analysis, fault analysis, DPA, simulation, countermeasures, systematic hardening
Jerry den Hartog, Erik P. de Vink
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Type Conference
Year 2004
Where IFIP
Authors Jerry den Hartog, Erik P. de Vink
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