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The story begins in the second floor of a Belgian embassy where Alice is writing a secret email to her colleague Bob. She cannot imagine that across the street in an adjacent building, Eve, their perennial enemy, is pointing an antenna aiming at the office window of the second floor. Alice never suspects what appears on her monitor is being recorded, treated, and displayed on Eve’s screen in the nearby building. She is confident that the privacy of the embassy and the security protocols she set up are sufficient to guarantee a secure environment. She is wrong, Eve found a “side-channel”.
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Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems: http://islab.oregonstate.edu/ches/.
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Ecrypt UCL Summer School in June 2006.
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Going back to 1967, one can read in the french novelist Rene Barjavel’s work “La Nuit des Temps”, the story of a mythical tribe, the Gondas—thousand-years-old but very advanced civilization—using a magical ring with memorization and communication means (translation of [Ugo86]). “Chaque fois qu’un Gonda desirait quelque chose de nouveau, des vetements, un voyage, des objets, il payait avec sa cle. Il pliait le majeur, enfoncait sa cle dans un emplacement prevu a cet effet et son compte, a l’ordinateur central, etait aussitot diminue de la valeur de la marchandise ou du service demandes.” [Bar71] Barjavel could then be considered as the spiritual father of the Smart Cards.
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The patent was filed the Avril 25th \(1978\).
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The sources of this part are: http://www.cardwerk.com/smartcards/smartcard_technology.aspx.
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Peeters, E. (2013). General Introduction. In: Advanced DPA Theory and Practice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6783-0_1
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