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Record Nr.

UNINA9910299844403321

Autore

Rebeiro Chester

Titolo

Timing Channels in Cryptography : A Micro-Architectural Perspective / / by Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015

ISBN

3-319-12370-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (162 p.)

Disciplina

005.74

620

621.382

Soggetti

Signal processing

Image processing

Speech processing systems

Data structures (Computer science)

Signal, Image and Speech Processing

Data Structures and Information Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

An Introduction to Timing Attacks -- Modern Cryptography -- Superscalar Processors, Cache Memories, and Branch Predictors -- Time-Driven Cache Attacks -- Advanced Time-Driven Cache Attacks on Block Ciphers -- A Formal Analysis of Time-Driven Cache Attacks -- Profiled Time-Driven Cache Attacks on Block Ciphers -- Access-Driven Cache Attacks on Block Ciphers -- Branch Prediction Attacks -- Countermeasures for Timing Attacks.

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with timing attacks on software implementations of encryption algorithms. It describes and analyzes various unintended covert timing channels that are formed when ciphers are executed in microprocessors. Modern superscalar microprocessors are considered, which are enabled with features such as multi-threaded, pipelined, parallel, speculative, and out-of-order execution. Various timing attack algorithms are described and analyzed for  block ciphers as well as public-key ciphers. The interplay between the cipher implementation,



system architecture, and the attack's success is analyzed. Further hardware and software countermeasures are discussed with the aim of illustrating methods to build systems that can protect against these attacks. Discusses various timing attack algorithms in detail allowing readers to reconstruct the attack. Provides several experimental results to support the theoretical analysis provided in the book. Analyzes information leakage from cache memories and branch prediction units in the processor. Examines information leakage models that would help quantify leakage in a covert timing channels.