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Universal fully-integrated fault attack sensor
In cryptography, an attack can be performed by injecting one or several faults into a device thus disrupting the functional behavior of the device. Techniques commonly used to inject faults consist in introducing variations in the source voltage, clock frequency, temperature, or irradiating with a laser beam etc.
Unlike analog sensors which are dedicated to the detection of a specific perturbation attack, the Digital Sensor is designed to detect various threats belonging to the family of Fault Injection Attacks (FIA):
- Input clock frequency (clock glitches, Overclocking): reduction of the clock period to provoke a critical path violation
- Input voltage (power glitches, underfeeding): reduction of supply voltage to increase the propagation delay of combinational logic
- Temperature (heating): modification of the temperature to increase the propagation delay
- Radiations (laser spot, light spot, Electromagnetic): provoke bit set or reset in registers by irradiation
Digital Sensor converts all monitored stresses into a timing stress which is then measured. When a threat is detected, it provides the system with a measurement of the threat’s level and it raises the hardware alarm.
KEY FEATURES
- Detects global and local fault injections as laser, EMFI, clock or temperature
- Difficult to identify by an attacker (melted within the rest of design)
- Real-time hardware alarm
- Embeds health-test to validate the integrity of the IP during the boot and on-demand
- Proven technology with stochastic model for reliability and security estimation
- Tested in the Security Science Factory Lab, using global stress (e.g., clock glitch) and local stress (e.g., electromagnetic injection)
- Security certification ready (including Common Criteria)
- Fully digital and designed with the standard cells library
- Transferable to any design kit
- Lightweight
- Customizable sensitivity
- Compatible with clock gating feature
- Several sensors can be gathered around a unique bus interface
- No calibration after design
- Support DVFS
- Easy to integrate into the system
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