Side-channel attacks pose a threat to cryptographic algorithms. HMAC is an important use case of a hash function, in which the input is partially secret and thus unknown to the attacker. Despite a few publications that discuss applications of power analysis techniques to attack HMAC-SHA-2, no generic method that shows a full attack on its hardware implementation has been proposed so far.
FortifyIQ details what is believed to be the first practical attack of this type on a true hardware implementation. All the stages of the attack are discussed, and validated experimentally, demonstrating a full attack implementation up to the discovery of the key derivatives that allow for forging HMAC signatures.
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