Paper 2009/503 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2009/503 ↗

Fault Attacks Against EMV Signatures

Jean-Sebastien Coron
David Naccache
Mehdi Tibouchi
Abstract

At CHES 2009, Coron, Joux, Kizhvatov, Naccache and Paillier (CJKNP) exhibited a fault attack against RSA signatures with partially known messages. This attack allows factoring the public modulus N. While the size of the unknown message part (UMP) increases with the number of faulty signatures available, the complexity of CJKNP's attack increases exponentially with the number of faulty signatures. This paper describes a simpler attack, whose complexity is polynomial in the number of faults; consequently, the new attack can handle much larger UMPs. The new technique can factor N in a fraction of a second using ten faulty EMV signatures -- a target beyond CJKNP's reach. We show how to apply the attack even when N is unknown, a frequent situation in real-life attacks.

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Public-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint.
History
2009-10-20: last updated
2009-10-20: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2009/503
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2009/503,
      author = {Jean-Sebastien Coron and David Naccache and Mehdi Tibouchi},
      title = {Fault Attacks Against EMV Signatures},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2009/503},
      year = {2009},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/503}
}
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