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Efficient flush-reload cache attack on scalar multiplication based signature algorithm

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This work was supported in part by National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program) (Grant No. 2013CB338004) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61272491, 61309021, 61472357, 61571063).

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  1. Department of Information Engineering, Ordnance Engineering College, Shijiazhuang, 050003, China

    Ping Zhou & Tao Wang

  2. Institute of North Electronic Equipment, Beijing, 100191, China

    Xinjie Zhao & Shize Guo

  3. College of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310027, China

    Xiaoxuan Lou & Fan Zhang

  4. Science and Technology on Communication Security Laboratory, Chengdu, 610041, China

    Fan Zhang

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Zhou, P., Wang, T., Lou, X. et al. Efficient flush-reload cache attack on scalar multiplication based signature algorithm. Sci. China Inf. Sci. 61, 039102 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11432-017-9108-3

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