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Extracting Unknown Keys from Unknown Algorithms Encrypting Unknown Fixed Messages and Returning No Results

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In addition to its usual complexity postulates, cryptography silently assumes that secrets can be physically protected in tamper-proof locations.

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    For example, the algorithm might start mixing the ciphertext’s fifth byte with the key’s third byte.

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    Generalizing the attack to spatial signals such as electromagnetic radiations is straightforward.

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    For example, operations that do not manipulate the key nor the ciphertext.

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Baek, YJ., Gratzer, V., Kim, SH., Naccache, D. (2010). Extracting Unknown Keys from Unknown Algorithms Encrypting Unknown Fixed Messages and Returning No Results. In: Sadeghi, AR., Naccache, D. (eds) Towards Hardware-Intrinsic Security. Information Security and Cryptography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14452-3_8

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