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WISA 2008: Information Security Applications pp 256–265Cite as

A Probing Attack on AES

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The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) defines the most popular block cipher. It is commonly used and often implemented on smart cards. In this paper, we show how a 128-bit AES key can be retrieved by microprobing. Thereby, a probe is placed onto the chip to spy on inner values. Watching one arbitrary bit of the AES State during the first two rounds of about 210 encryptions is enough to reveal the whole key. For special positions of the probe, this number can be reduced to 168. The paper demonstrates that even few information is sufficient for a successful attack on AES.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Inffeldgasse 16a, 8010, Graz, Austria

    Jörn-Marc Schmidt

  2. UCL Crypto Group, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, Place du Levant, 3, Louvain-la-Neuve, 1348, Belgium

    Chong Hee Kim

  3. Secure Business Austria (SBA), Favoritenstraße 16, 1040, Vienna, Austria

    Jörn-Marc Schmidt

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  1. Information Security Research Division, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 161 Gajeong Dong, YuseongGu, 305-700, Daejeon, Korea

    Kyo-Il Chung

  2. The Attached Institute of Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), 1 Yuseong-Post, 305-702, Daejeon, Korea

    Kiwook Sohn

  3. Computer Science Department, Google Inc. and Columbia University, 1214 Amsterdam Avenue, NY 10027, New York, USA

    Moti Yung

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Schmidt, JM., Kim, C.H. (2009). A Probing Attack on AES. In: Chung, KI., Sohn, K., Yung, M. (eds) Information Security Applications. WISA 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5379. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00306-6_19

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