Paper 2012/172 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2012/172 ↗

Attacking RSA-CRT Signatures with Faults on Montgomery Multiplication

Pierre-Alain Fouque
Nicolas Guillermin
Delphine Leresteux
Mehdi Tibouchi
Jean-Christophe Zapalowicz
Abstract

In this paper, we present several efficient fault attacks against implementations of RSA-CRT signatures that use modular exponentiation algorithms based on Montgomery multiplication. They apply to any padding function, including randomized paddings, and as such are the first fault attacks effective against RSA-PSS. The new attacks work provided that a small register can be forced to either zero, or a constant value, or a value with zero high-order bits. We show that these models are quite realistic, as such faults can be achieved against many proposed hardware designs for RSA signatures.

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Public-key cryptography
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Preprint.
History
2012-04-11: last updated
2012-04-11: published
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2012/172
License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/172,
      author = {Pierre-Alain Fouque and Nicolas Guillermin and Delphine Leresteux and Mehdi Tibouchi and Jean-Christophe Zapalowicz},
      title = {Attacking RSA-CRT Signatures with Faults on Montgomery Multiplication},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2012/172},
      year = {2012},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/172}
}
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