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Cryptanalysis is the art and science of revealing secret information of cryptographic systems. Until approximately 20 years ago, cryptanalysts primarily utilized mathematics to analyze cryptographic schemes. In parallel to the development of more sophisticated ciphers, cryptanalysts were also forced to develop stronger analysis methods. To break the Caesar cipher, which was used 2000 years ago, a simple statistical analysis of a ciphertext was sufficient. The Vigenère cipher was also broken with statistical analysis, albeit in the 19th century.
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Sometimes, the term side channel attack is also used as broader term, e.g., [35, 71, 136]. In that terminology, passive side channel attacks are what we understand as side channel attacks, and active side channel attacks are what we understand as fault attacks. In this work, however, we do not use this terminology.
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Krämer, J. (2015). Introduction. In: Why Cryptography Should Not Rely on Physical Attack Complexity. T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-787-1_1
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