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Differential fault attack (DFA) is the most popular technique often used to attack physical implementation of block cipher by introducing a computational error. In this paper, a new modified SPN-type architecture has been proposed which provides better resistance against fault attack compared to AES. The proposed architecture is similar to AES architecture except round key mixing function. A nonlinear vectorial Boolean function called Nmix is used to mix the round key with round output, which is a 16-bit mixing operation. 128-bit 10th round key is retrieved using 24 faulty–fault-free ciphertext pairs by injecting a fault at the input of 9th round, before sub-byte operation. It needs computation complexity of \(2^{53}\) which is much greater compared to original AES to find 128 bit of 10th round key.
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Maity, G., Jana, S., Mantri, M., Bhaumik, J. (2017). Improving Security of SPN-Type Block Cipher Against Fault Attack. In: Bhaumik, J., Chakrabarti, I., De, B.P., Bag, B., Mukherjee, S. (eds) Communication, Devices, and Computing. ICCDC 2017. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 470. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8585-7_11
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