On the Effect of Clock Frequency on Voltage and Electromagnetic Fault Injection

Stefanos Koffas; Praveen Kumar Vadnala

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16815-4_8

On the Effect of Clock Frequency on Voltage and Electromagnetic Fault Injection

Stefanos Koffas^*, Praveen Kumar Vadnala

^*Corresponding author for this work

Cyber Security

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Abstract

We investigate the influence of clock frequency on the success rate of a fault injection attack. In particular, we examine the success rate of voltage and electromagnetic fault attacks for varying clock frequencies. Using three different tests that cover different components of a System-on-Chip, we perform fault injection while its CPU operates at different clock frequencies. Our results show that the attack’s success rate increases with an increase in clock frequency for both voltage and EM fault injection attacks. As the technology advances push the clock frequency further, these results can help assess the impact of fault injection attacks more accurately and develop appropriate countermeasures to address them.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops - ACNS 2022 Satellite Workshops, AIBlock, AIHWS, AIoTS, CIMSS, Cloud S and P, SCI, SecMT, SiMLA, Proceedings
Editors	Jianying Zhou, Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Sridhar Adepu, Cristina Alcaraz, Lejla Batina, Emiliano Casalicchio, Chenglu Jin, Jingqiang Lin, Eleonora Losiouk, Suryadipta Majumdar, Weizhi Meng, Stjepan Picek, Yury Zhauniarovich, Jun Shao, Chunhua Su, Cong Wang, Saman Zonouz
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	127-145
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-16815-4
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-16814-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16815-4_8
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Satellite Workshops on AIBlock, AIHWS, AIoTS, CIMSS, Cloud S and P, SCI, SecMT, SiMLA 2022, held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2022 - Virtual, Online Duration: 20 Jun 2022 → 23 Jun 2022

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Publisher	Springer
Volume	13285
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	Satellite Workshops on AIBlock, AIHWS, AIoTS, CIMSS, Cloud S and P, SCI, SecMT, SiMLA 2022, held in conjunction with the 20th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS 2022
City	Virtual, Online
Period	20/06/22 → 23/06/22

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Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care
Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

RISC-V
System-on-chip
Voltage and electromagnetic fault injection

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Koffas, S., & Vadnala, P. K. (2022). On the Effect of Clock Frequency on Voltage and Electromagnetic Fault Injection. In J. Zhou, S. Chattopadhyay, S. Adepu, C. Alcaraz, L. Batina, E. Casalicchio, C. Jin, J. Lin, E. Losiouk, S. Majumdar, W. Meng, S. Picek, Y. Zhauniarovich, J. Shao, C. Su, C. Wang, & S. Zonouz (Eds.), Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops - ACNS 2022 Satellite Workshops, AIBlock, AIHWS, AIoTS, CIMSS, Cloud S and P, SCI, SecMT, SiMLA, Proceedings (pp. 127-145). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13285 ). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16815-4_8

Koffas, Stefanos ; Vadnala, Praveen Kumar. / On the Effect of Clock Frequency on Voltage and Electromagnetic Fault Injection. Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops - ACNS 2022 Satellite Workshops, AIBlock, AIHWS, AIoTS, CIMSS, Cloud S and P, SCI, SecMT, SiMLA, Proceedings. editor / Jianying Zhou ; Sudipta Chattopadhyay ; Sridhar Adepu ; Cristina Alcaraz ; Lejla Batina ; Emiliano Casalicchio ; Chenglu Jin ; Jingqiang Lin ; Eleonora Losiouk ; Suryadipta Majumdar ; Weizhi Meng ; Stjepan Picek ; Yury Zhauniarovich ; Jun Shao ; Chunhua Su ; Cong Wang ; Saman Zonouz. Cham : Springer, 2022. pp. 127-145 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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On the Effect of Clock Frequency on Voltage and Electromagnetic Fault Injection. / Koffas, Stefanos; Vadnala, Praveen Kumar.
Applied Cryptography and Network Security Workshops - ACNS 2022 Satellite Workshops, AIBlock, AIHWS, AIoTS, CIMSS, Cloud S and P, SCI, SecMT, SiMLA, Proceedings. ed. / Jianying Zhou; Sudipta Chattopadhyay; Sridhar Adepu; Cristina Alcaraz; Lejla Batina; Emiliano Casalicchio; Chenglu Jin; Jingqiang Lin; Eleonora Losiouk; Suryadipta Majumdar; Weizhi Meng; Stjepan Picek; Yury Zhauniarovich; Jun Shao; Chunhua Su; Cong Wang; Saman Zonouz. Cham: Springer, 2022. p. 127-145 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 13285 ).

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