Fault Injection Method for Hardware-implemented AES without Artificial Triggering

Abstract

The theoretical process of fault injection attacks requires artificial triggering for target operation experimental easement. In real-world scenarios, artificial triggering depends on a powerful assumption, e.g., internal codes manipulating on the target device. Therefore, Lim et al. proposed a fault injection system that uses the I/O signals of target devices as a trigger to relax attacker assumptions. This system does not require the implementation of artificial triggering because input signals are used as a trigger in the transmission of plaintexts for fault injection attacks. The proposed fault injection system was applied in the experimental verification of an algorithm implemented in software; however, verification was not performed for a hardware-implemented algorithm. In this paper, we propose an eased triggering system that can also be used in hardware implemented algorithms. In the proposed system, Start/Done signals are used as a trigger. In addition, we propose an algorithm to analyze hardware-implemented AES, even if the fault injected range is widened.