On the application of Two-Photon Absorption for Laser Fault Injection attacks
Laser Fault Injection (LFI) is considered to be the most powerful semiinvasive fault injection method for implementation attacks on security devices. In this work we discuss for the first time the application of the nonlinear Two-Photon Absorption (TPA) effect for the purpose of LFI. Though TPA is...
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| author | Bodo Selmke Maximilian Pollanka Andreas Duensing Emanuele Strieder Hayden Wen Michael Mittermair Reinhard Kienberger Georg Sigl |
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Laser Fault Injection (LFI) is considered to be the most powerful semiinvasive fault injection method for implementation attacks on security devices. In this work we discuss for the first time the application of the nonlinear Two-Photon Absorption (TPA) effect for the purpose of LFI. Though TPA is an established technique in other areas, e.g. fluorescence microscopy, so far it did not receive any attention in the field of physical attack methods on integrated circuits. We show that TPA has several superior properties over the regular linear LFI method. The TPA effect allows to work on non-thinned devices without increasing the induced energy and hence the stress on the device. In contrast to regular LFI, the nonlinearity of the TPA effect leads to increased precision due to the steeper descent in intensity and also a vertically restricted photoelectric effect. By practical experiments, we demonstrate the general applicability of the method for a specific device and that unlike a regular LFI setup, TPA-LFI is capable to inject faults without triggering a latch-up effect. In addition we discuss the possible implications of TPA-LFI on various sensor-based countermeasures.
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| spelling | doaj.art-5b901ff9287d4a74ae313392e603124c2024-08-23T05:44:41ZengRuhr-Universität BochumTransactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems2569-29252022-08-012022410.46586/tches.v2022.i4.862-885On the application of Two-Photon Absorption for Laser Fault Injection attacksBodo Selmke0Maximilian Pollanka1Andreas Duensing2Emanuele Strieder3Hayden Wen4Michael Mittermair5Reinhard Kienberger6Georg Sigl7Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), Munich, GermanyTechnical University of Munich (TUM), Chair for Laser and X-ray Physics, Munich, GermanyTechnical University of Munich (TUM), Chair for Laser and X-ray Physics, Munich, GermanyFraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), Munich, GermanyTechnical University of Munich (TUM), Chair for Laser and X-ray Physics, Munich, GermanyTechnical University of Munich (TUM), Chair for Laser and X-ray Physics, Munich, GermanyTechnical University of Munich (TUM), Chair for Laser and X-ray Physics, Munich, GermanyFraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC), Munich, Germany; Technical University of Munich (TUM), Chair of Security in Information Technology, Munich, Germany Laser Fault Injection (LFI) is considered to be the most powerful semiinvasive fault injection method for implementation attacks on security devices. In this work we discuss for the first time the application of the nonlinear Two-Photon Absorption (TPA) effect for the purpose of LFI. Though TPA is an established technique in other areas, e.g. fluorescence microscopy, so far it did not receive any attention in the field of physical attack methods on integrated circuits. We show that TPA has several superior properties over the regular linear LFI method. The TPA effect allows to work on non-thinned devices without increasing the induced energy and hence the stress on the device. In contrast to regular LFI, the nonlinearity of the TPA effect leads to increased precision due to the steeper descent in intensity and also a vertically restricted photoelectric effect. By practical experiments, we demonstrate the general applicability of the method for a specific device and that unlike a regular LFI setup, TPA-LFI is capable to inject faults without triggering a latch-up effect. In addition we discuss the possible implications of TPA-LFI on various sensor-based countermeasures. https://ojs-dev.ub.rub.de/index.php/TCHES/article/view/9843Laser Fault InjectionCountermeasuresSingle-Photon AbsorptionTwo-Photon AbsorptionFault Attacks |
| spellingShingle | Bodo Selmke Maximilian Pollanka Andreas Duensing Emanuele Strieder Hayden Wen Michael Mittermair Reinhard Kienberger Georg Sigl On the application of Two-Photon Absorption for Laser Fault Injection attacks Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems Laser Fault Injection Countermeasures Single-Photon Absorption Two-Photon Absorption Fault Attacks |
| title | On the application of Two-Photon Absorption for Laser Fault Injection attacks |
| title_full | On the application of Two-Photon Absorption for Laser Fault Injection attacks |
| title_fullStr | On the application of Two-Photon Absorption for Laser Fault Injection attacks |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the application of Two-Photon Absorption for Laser Fault Injection attacks |
| title_short | On the application of Two-Photon Absorption for Laser Fault Injection attacks |
| title_sort | on the application of two photon absorption for laser fault injection attacks |
| topic | Laser Fault Injection Countermeasures Single-Photon Absorption Two-Photon Absorption Fault Attacks |
| url | https://ojs-dev.ub.rub.de/index.php/TCHES/article/view/9843 |
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