TITLE:
Timing Attack Analysis on AAβ Cryptosystem
AUTHORS:
A. H. A. Ghafar, M. R. K. Ariffin
KEYWORDS:
Timing Attack; Side-Channel Attack; Public-Key Cryptosystem; AAβ Public Key Cryptosystem
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.2 No.4,
March
17,
2014
ABSTRACT: Timing attack is an attack on
the implementation of a cryptographic primitive. The attack collects leaked
secret data via certain implementation techniques either on software or
hardware. This paper provides an analysis of a theoretical timing attack on the
AAβ algorithm. The attack discussed in this paper gives avenues for secure
implementation of AAβ against timing attacks. The simulation of the attack is
important to provide invulnerability features for the algorithm in order to be
implemented and embedded on applications. At the end of the attack, a method to
overcome it will be introduced and it is called AAβ blinding.