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Timing Channels in Cryptography: A Micro-Architectural Perspective

By Debdeep Mukhopadhyay , Chester Rebeiro , Sarani Bhattacharya (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Year
2015
ISBN
978-3-319-12369-1, 978-3-319-12370-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-12370-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6421931 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
152\162
Time added
2015-02-17 02:00:00
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Description

This book deals with timing attacks on cryptographic ciphers. It describes and analyzes various unintended covert timing channels that are formed when ciphers are executed in microprocessors. The book considers modern superscalar microprocessors which are enabled with features such as multi-threaded, pipelined, parallel, speculative, and out-of order execution. Various timing attack algorithms are described and analyzed for both block ciphers as well as public-key ciphers. The interplay between the cipher implementation, the system architecture, and the attacks success is analyzed. Further hardware and software countermeasures are discussed with the aim of illustrating methods to build systems that can protect against these attacks.

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