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Re: [Cfrg] Security proofs v DH backdoors

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Sun, 30 October 2016 11:12 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Security proofs v DH backdoors
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Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de> writes:

>I'm really interested what you mean here, can you point to concrete examples
>of such attacks?

There's so much I don't really know where to start... I've just done a quick
google of "fault attack ecdsa" and got 29,700 hits (OK, lots will be dups :-),
but the first few (de-dup'd) papers are:

  A Fault Attack on ECDSA
  Fault Attacks on Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
  A Novel Fault Attack Against ECDSA
  Synthesis of Fault Attacks on Cryptographic Implementations
  Fault Attack to the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm
  [...]

Real-world attacks would be, for example, the recovery of the PS3 master
signing key due to bad RNG use in ECDSA, equivalent to an RNG fault.

Peter.

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