Side Channel and Fault Injection Attacks and Countermeasures

Dear Colleagues,

Since the late ’90s, the security of cryptosystems has evolved from pure mathematical abstractions to practical physical concerns. Due to side-channel attacks and fault attacks, primitives that were secure from a theoretical point of view (in the black-box model where the adversary can only access to the inputs/outputs of algorithms) became insecure when implemented in practice. Such variety of attacks, targeting the execution timing, power consumption, or electromagnetic radiations for example, typically target small platforms such as microchips. With the current massive growth of embedded devices dealing with sensitive information from different fields (e.g. automotive, banking, medical, electronic-ID) and with the exponential increase in the number of connected devices from the Internet of Things, physical security has taken a central position in research.

This special issue focuses on the general topic of physical security in theory and in practice, from the design of state-of-the-art attacks, countermeasures, provable secure implementations and security evaluations. Areas of interest include:

• Symmetric/asymmetric cryptography
• Side-channel attacks
• Fault attacks
• Probing model and masking schemes
• Software/Hardware countermeasures
• Secure implementations
• Security evaluation

Prof. Dr. Claude Carlet
Dr. Pierrick Méaux
Dr. Romain Poussier
Guest Editors

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