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In this paper we study a differential fault attack against ciphers having the same physical structure as in the Grain family. In particular we demonstrate our attack against Grain v1, Grain-128 and Grain-128a. The existing attacks by Berzati et al. (HOST 2009), Karmakar et al. (Africacrypt 2011) and Banik et al. (CHES 2012) assume a fault model that allows them to reproduce a fault at a particular register location more than once. However, we assume a realistic fault model in which the above assumption is no longer necessary, i.e., re-injecting the fault in the same location more than once is not required. In addition, towards a more practical framework, we also consider the situation in which more than one consecutive locations of the LFSR are flipped as result of a single fault injection.
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Banik, S., Maitra, S., Sarkar, S. (2012). A Differential Fault Attack on the Grain Family under Reasonable Assumptions. In: Galbraith, S., Nandi, M. (eds) Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2012. INDOCRYPT 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7668. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34931-7_12
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