Timing Channels in Cryptography

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. An Introduction to Timing Attacks

   • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

   Pages 1-11

3. Modern Cryptography

   • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

   Pages 13-35

4. Superscalar Processors, Cache Memories, and Branch Predictors

   • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

   Pages 37-51

5. Time-Driven Cache Attacks

   • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

   Pages 53-70

6. Advanced Time-Driven Cache Attacks on Block Ciphers

   • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

   Pages 71-80

7. A Formal Analysis of Time-Driven Cache Attacks

   • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

   Pages 81-94

8. Profiled Time-Driven Cache Attacks on Block Ciphers

   • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

   Pages 95-108

9. Access-Driven Cache Attacks on Block Ciphers

   • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

   Pages 109-124

10. Branch Prediction Attacks

    • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

    Pages 125-137

11. Countermeasures for Timing Attacks

    • Chester Rebeiro, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Sarani Bhattacharya

    Pages 139-149

12. Back Matter

    Pages 151-152

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This book deals with timing attacks on cryptographic ciphers. It describes and analyzes various unintended covert timing channels that are formed when ciphers are executed in microprocessors. The book considers modern superscalar microprocessors which are enabled with features such as multi-threaded, pipelined, parallel, speculative, and out-of order execution. Various timing attack algorithms are described and analyzed for both block ciphers as well as public-key ciphers. The interplay between the cipher implementation, the system architecture, and the attack's success is analyzed. Further hardware and software countermeasures are discussed with the aim of illustrating methods to build systems that can protect against these attacks.

• Branch Prediction Attacks
• Cache Attacks
• Hardware Security
• Micro-architecture Attacks
• Timing Attacks

• Columbia University, Stamford, USA

  Chester Rebeiro

• Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

  Debdeep Mukhopadhyay

• Department of Computer Science and Engin, IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India

  Sarani Bhattacharya

Debdeep Mukhopadhyay is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. Chester Rebeiro is a Post-doc researcher in the department of Computer Science, Columbia University, USA.

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