Fault Attack on a Point Blinding Countermeasure of Pairing Algorithms

Jea Hoon Park · ETRI Journal · 2011

Recently, Page and Vercauteren proposed a fault attack on pairing algorithms and two countermeasures against such an attack. The countermeasure uses either a random scalar or a random point to blind the input points. To defeat the countermeasure using a random point, we utilize the point addition formula on an elliptic curve. As a result, we successfully defeat the countermeasure using a random point.

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