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Stream ciphers have been popular targets of fault-based cryptanalysis. Almost all of the winners of the eSTREAM project have been cryptanalyzed successfully using fault attack techniques. There exist a very little research work in the contemporary literature to prevent fault attacks on stream ciphers and most of them are cipher specific. Most of the existing related work concentrates only on fault detection. In this work, we propose a generic strategy to prevent fault attacks on a stream cipher by fault detection and correction. The scheme guarantees \(100\%\) coverage of detection and correction in both single-bit and double-bit fault. The scheme is validated taking Grain-128 as a hardware efficient stream cipher in the eSTREAM portfolio along with FPGA implementation.
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Maiti, S., Chowdhury, D.R. (2021). Preventing Fault Attack on Stream Ciphers by Fault Detection and Correction. In: Giri, D., Ho, A.T.S., Ponnusamy, S., Lo, NW. (eds) Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Mathematics and Computing. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1170. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5411-7_5
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