Side-channel attacks on the McEliece and Niederreiter public-key cryptosystems

Roberto Avanzi; Simon Hoerder; Dan Page; Michael Tunstall

doi:10.1007/s13389-011-0024-9

Side-channel attacks on the McEliece and Niederreiter public-key cryptosystems

Roberto Avanzi
, Simon Hoerder
, Dan Page
, Michael Tunstall

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Abstract

Research within "post-quantum" cryptography has focused on development of schemes that resist quantum cryptanalysis. However, if such schemes are to be deployed, practical questions of efficiency and physical security should also be addressed; this is particularly important for embedded systems. To this end, we investigate issues relating to side-channel attack against the McEliece and Niederreiter public-key cryptosystems, for example improving those presented by Strenzke et al. (Side channels in the McEliece PKC, vol. 5299, pp. 216-229, 2008), and novel countermeasures against such attack.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	271-281
Number of pages	11
Journal	Journal of Cryptographic Engineering
Volume	1
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s13389-011-0024-9
State	Published - Dec 2011
Externally published	Yes

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Funding Information:
The research described in this paper was conducted while the first author was a member of the Faculty of Mathematics, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. This work has been supported in part by EPSRC grants EP/H001689/1 and EP/F039638/1.

Keywords

Embedded systems
McEliece
Niederreiter
Public-key cryptography
Side-channel attack

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Computer Networks and Communications

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