(Adversarial) Electromagnetic Disturbance in the Industry

Faults occur naturally and are responsible for reliability concerns. Faults are also an interesting tool for attackers to extract sensitive information from secure chips. In particular, non-invasive fault attacks have received a fair amount of attention. One easy way to perturb a chip without alteri...

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Published in:IEEE transactions on computers 2023-02, Vol.72 (2), p.414-422
Main Authors: Beckers, Arthur, Guilley, Sylvain, Maurine, Philippe, O'Flynn, Colin, Picek, Stjepan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Circuit faults
Computer Science
Couplings
Cryptography and Security
Effectivity of fault countermeasures
electromagnetic fault injection (EMFI)
Electromagnetics
fault parameters identification
Firmware
Integrated circuits
Light levels
Probes
Reproducibility
setup calibration
Switches
test benches
Voltage
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Summary:Faults occur naturally and are responsible for reliability concerns. Faults are also an interesting tool for attackers to extract sensitive information from secure chips. In particular, non-invasive fault attacks have received a fair amount of attention. One easy way to perturb a chip without altering it is the so-called Electromagnetic Fault Injection (EMFI). Such attack has been studied in great depth, and nowadays, it is part and parcel of the state-of-the-art. Indeed, new capabilities have emerged where EM experimental benches are used to cryptanalyze chips. The progress of this "field" is fast, in terms of reproducibility , accuracy , and number of use-cases . However, there is too little awareness about such advances. In this paper, we aim to expose the true harmfulness of EMFI (including reproducibility) to enable reasonable security quotations. We also analyze protections (at hardware/firmware/system levels) in light of their efficiency. We characterize the specificity of EM fault injection compared to other injection means (laser, glitch, probing).
ISSN:0018-9340
1557-9956
DOI:10.1109/TC.2022.3224373