In the blink of an eye: There goes your AES key

EncryptedBytes · Jun 13, 2012

-http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sps32/AES_in_the_blink_draft.pdf-

This new approach to making SCA attacks has several consequences. It conceivably allows low budget would-be attackers to possess technology far more advanced than state-of-the-art technology; meaning that the number of devices and frequency of attacks on robust hardware could increase. In addition, any attacker with sufficient technical and financial backing could make a multi-pipeline or silicon version of the technology in order to attack even the most secure of devices. We are of course unsure if current countermeasures would be able to survive attacks of this nature. Our current assessment of countermeasures in very secure devices is such that we believe they would be unable to withstand an attack from our upgraded
technology.

A solution as simple as off-the-shelf components bought from an electronics distributor and a small budget have makings of a problem for the cryptographic community and a serious threat to the semiconductor industry. Any intellectual property pirate with the relevant electronics knowledge has the potential to attack even the most secure devices with great effect.
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