Paper 2013/043

Differential Fault Attack on the PRINCE Block Cipher

Ling Song and Lei Hu

Abstract

PRINCE is a new lightweight block cipher proposed at the ASIACRYPT'2012 conference. In this paper two observations on the linear layer of the cipher are presented. Based on the observations a differential fault attack is applied to the cipher under a random nibble-level fault model. The attack uniquely determines the 128-bit key of the cipher using less than 7 fault injections averagely. In the case with 4 fault injections, the attack limits the key to a space of size less than $2^{18}$ statistically.

Metadata
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Category
Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
lightweight cipherPRINCE block cipherdifferential fault attack
Contact author(s)
lsong @ is ac cn
History
2013-01-29: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2013/043
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/043,
      author = {Ling Song and Lei Hu},
      title = {Differential Fault Attack on the PRINCE Block Cipher},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2013/043},
      year = {2013},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/043}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/043}
}
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