Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Circuits supporting improved side channel and fault injection attack resistance
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Application No.: US16431153Application Date: 2019-06-04
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Publication No.: US11194933B2Publication Date: 2021-12-07
- Inventor: Yaacov Belenky , Gyora Benedek , Reuven Elbaum , David Novick , Elad Peer , Chaim Shen-Orr , Yonatan Shlomovich
- Applicant: Intel Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: Alliance IP, LLC
- Main IPC: H04L29/06
- IPC: H04L29/06 ; G06F21/72 ; H04L9/08 ; G06F21/60 ; G06F21/56 ; H04L9/06 ; H04L9/00

Abstract:
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods to protect against SCA and fault injection attacks through the use of a temporary or ephemeral key to cryptographically alter input data portions. Universal resistant block (URB) circuitry receives a seed data value and a at least one secret key data value and generates an ephemeral key output data value. Cryptographic circuitry uses the ephemeral key data value to transform an input data portion to produce an transformed output data portion. The use of an SCA or fault injection attack on the transformed output data portion will reveal only the ephemeral key data value and not the at least one secret key data value. Further, where a unique ephemeral key data value is used to transform each input data portion, an attacker cannot discover the ephemeral key in a piecemeal manner and must instead discover the complete ephemeral key data value—significantly increasing the difficulty of performing a successful SCA or fault injection attack.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190286853A1 CIRCUITS SUPPORTING IMPROVED SIDE CHANNEL AND FAULT INJECTION ATTACK RESISTANCE Public/Granted day:2019-09-19
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