Securing RSA algorithm against timing attack
Joint Authors
Arjunan, Amuthan
Narayanan, Praveena
Ramu, Kaviarasan
Source
The International Arab Journal of Information Technology
Issue
Vol. 13, Issue 4 (31 Jul. 2016), pp.471-476, 6 p.
Publisher
Publication Date
2016-07-31
Country of Publication
Jordan
No. of Pages
6
Main Subjects
Engineering & Technology Sciences (Multidisciplinary)
Abstract EN
Security plays an important role in many embedded systems.
All security based algorithms are implemented in hardware or software, and on physical devices which interact with the systems and influenced by their environments.
The attacker extracts, investigate and monitor these physical interactions and extracts side channel information which is used in cryptanalysis.
This type of cryptanalysis is known as side channel cryptanalysis and attacks performed by using this method is known side channel attacks.
There are different types of side channel attacks based on side channel information like time, power, electromagnetic information and faulty output emitted from the cryptographic devices during implementation.
The attack that occurs based on the run-time by which the information gained from physical characteristics of cryptosystems to retrieve the secret key is known as the timing attack.
The side channel attacks are vulnerable to both symmetric and asymmetric algorithms.
RSA is an asymmetric algorithm which plays an important role in most of the applications, but this algorithm is vulnerable to timing attack.
So a new technique is proposed called “Randomness Algorithm” and Optical Asymmetric Encryption Padding (OAEP) technique to improve the robustness of RSA algorithm against timing attack, by introducing randomness in computation of decryption process to make the timing information unusable to the attacker.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Arjunan, Amuthan& Narayanan, Praveena& Ramu, Kaviarasan. 2016. Securing RSA algorithm against timing attack. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology،Vol. 13, no. 4, pp.471-476.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-721978
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Ramu, Kaviarasan…[et al.]. Securing RSA algorithm against timing attack. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology Vol. 13, no. 4 (Jul. 2016), pp.471-476.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-721978
American Medical Association (AMA)
Arjunan, Amuthan& Narayanan, Praveena& Ramu, Kaviarasan. Securing RSA algorithm against timing attack. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology. 2016. Vol. 13, no. 4, pp.471-476.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-721978
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 476
Record ID
BIM-721978