Resistance of Radiation Tolerant TMR Shift Registers to Optical Fault Injections
Keywords:
Fault Injection attack, laser, reliability, security, triple modular redundancy, standard library, rad-hard flip-flopsAbstract
Protection of information is essential for IoT devices. They are often subject to lab analysis with the objective to reveal secret hidden information. One of the ways to reveal the cryptographic key is to perform optical Fault Injection attacks. In this work, we investigated the IHP radiation tolerant shift registers built of Triple Modular Redundant flip-flops. In our experiments, we were able to inject different transient faults into TMR registers using a single laser beam.
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