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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 30, 2012
Gemalto SA, Meudon, FR;
Stephanie Salgado, Meudon, FR;
Fabrice Perion, Meudon, FR;
GEMALTO SA, Meudon, FR;
Abstract
The present invention relates to cryptographic method that are resistant to fault injection attacks, to protect the confidentiality and the integrity of secret keys. For that, the invention describes a method to protect a key hardware register against fault attack, this register being inside an hardware block cipher BC embedded inside an electronic component, said component containing stored inside a memory area a cryptographic key K, characterized in that it comprises following steps: A.) loading the key Kram inside said register; B.) computing a value X such as K=BC(K,X); C.) after at least one sensitive operation, computing a value V such as V=BC(K,X); D.) matching the value V with the key Kram value stored in the memory area; E.) if the matching is not ok detecting that a fault occurs.