SAT-based Formal Verification of Fault Injection Countermeasures for Cryptographic Circuits
Abstract: Fault injection attacks represent a type of active, physical attack against cryptographic circuits. Various countermeasures have been proposed to thwart such attacks, however, the design and implementation of which are intricate, error-prone, and laborious. The current formal fault-resistance verification approaches are limited in efficiency and scalability. In this paper, we formalize the fault-resistance verification problem and show that it is coNP-complete. We then devise a novel approach for encoding the fault-resistance verification problem as the Boolean satisfiability (SAT) problem so that modern off-the-shelf SAT solvers can be utilized. The approach is implemented in an open-source tool FIRMER which is evaluated extensively on realistic cryptographic circuit benchmarks. The experimental results show that FIRMER is able to verify fault-resistance of almost all (72/76) benchmarks in 3 minutes (the other three are verified in 35 minutes and the hardest one is verified in 4 h.... https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/11782
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                Englisch
 
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                SAT-based Formal Verification of Fault Injection Countermeasures for Cryptographic Circuits ; volume:2024 ; number:4 ; year:2024
 IACR transactions on cryptographic hardware and embedded systems ; 2024, Heft 4 (2024)
 
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                Tan, Huiyu
 Gao, Pengfei
 Song, Fu
 Chen, Taolue
 Wu, Zhilin
 
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                        10.46586/tches.v2024.i4.1-39
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                        urn:nbn:de:101:1-2409251857450.860353337951
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- Tan, Huiyu
- Gao, Pengfei
- Song, Fu
- Chen, Taolue
- Wu, Zhilin
 
            