Glossary entry

French term or phrase:

attaque par faute

English translation:

fault attack

Added to glossary by FannyMc
Aug 30, 2006 13:44
17 yrs ago
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French term

attaque par faute

French to English Tech/Engineering Computers (general) Cryptography
Taken from a text describing a cryptographic method of "proteger les logiques contre les attaques par faute."

I have found a definition on Wikipedia:
"introduction volontaire d'erreurs dans le système pour provoquer certains comportements révélateurs"

but still have no idea as to what the English equivalent might be...

Thanks in advance!
Proposed translations (English)
3 +2 fault attack
3 Software Fault Injection

Proposed translations

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fault attack

Gets quite a few ghits, but the fact that so many of them are non-English makes me wonder if there is not a better term.

Fault Attack
During normal operation the cryptanalyst deliberately provokes errors e.g. by electromagnetic radiation or suddenly raising the clock rate. By the changed program sequence he tries to deduce information about the secret data
http://www.cryptovision.de/cvweb/index.php?id=21&L=1&range=f... [German site]

realize fault attacks can be found in [BS03] where the first fault attack on the. Advanced Encryption Standard is given. 4 Overview over CSA ...
eprint.iacr.org/2004/289.pdf

The idea of a fault attack is to let the coercer test the loyalty of
a coerced voter. The coercer gives the voter messages that she should use during the protocol. The coercer can send
a garbage message to the voter. If the voter is unable to decide whether the message is garbage or not (for instance
when a ciphertext is sent), the attacker may distinguish a voter who follows the coercer’s instructions from a voter
who is trying to cheat the coercer, as the protocol would block on the incorrect message. In practice, a coercer can use
this technique to check whether a coerced voter is behaving as expected. We illustrate the attack on a simple protocol
inspired by a voting protocol proposed by Lee et al.
www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/Publis/PAPERS/PDF/DKR-fee05.pdf - [French site]

A fault attack is an attack in which the attacker takes advantage of erroneous ... different values of d, and send some ciphertext encrypted uisng these ...
https://www.cosic.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/nessie/reports/phase2/... [Belgian site]

Another common approach is to only distribute encrypted content (see, eg, ... attack the system by using a fault attack against inners levels of the Feistel ...
www.cs.princeton.edu/~mjacob/papers/drm1.pdf
Peer comment(s):

agree Natasha Dupuy : Have also found 'fault induction attack'
8 mins
agree Charlie Bavington : Search on key terms from the Askers own wiki page, i.e. [rsa +attack +prime +"glitch attack"] brings up reliable refs to "fault attack" confirmed by 2nd search on [rsa +"fault attack"]. Not hard :-)
17 mins
Yes, it was "glitch attack" that set me thinking it might be that easy.
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Ha! That certainly seems to work! I'm not sure why I had decided against "fault attack", but I'm sure I must have had a very good reason...or not. Thanks a lot!"
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Software Fault Injection

Hi,
I have also found a lot of references to fault injection attacks, but more importantly to the method called "Software fault injection". If you are looking for the actual name of the method, this might be it:
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