ECE MS Thesis Defense: Tianhong Xu

MS Thesis Defense: A novel simple power analysis (SPA) attack on Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)

Tianhong Xu

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Abstract: Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), as a widely used public-key cryptography, is vulnerable to simple power analysis(SPA) attacks. There are many countermeasures against simple power analysis(SPA) attacks on ECC implementation, the Always-add algorithm is one of the most popular countermeasures. This research proposes a new SPA attack which is effective to the ECC encrypting implemented with Always-add algorithm, it uses deep-learning tools and statistical method to retrieve a secret key from only one EM trace collected from a ASIC circuit running ECC encryption.