Practical Electromagnetic Disturbance Analysis on Commercial Contactless Smartcards
Contactless smart cards are being widely employed in electronic passports, monetary payments, access control systems, and so forth, because of their advantages such as convenience and ease of maintenance. In this paper, we present a new side-channel attack method for contactless smart cards. This me...
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| author | Jaedeok Ji Dong-Guk Han Seokwon Jung Sangjin Lee Jongsub Moon |
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| description | Contactless smart cards are being widely employed in electronic passports, monetary payments, access control systems, and so forth, because of their advantages such as convenience and ease of maintenance. In this paper, we present a new side-channel attack method for contactless smart cards. This method exploits the information leakage stemming from electromagnetic disturbances (EMD). We also made a convenient and low-cost EMD reader board that performs side-channel attacks on contactless smart cards. In order to demonstrate that EMDs can become another information-leakage side channel, we have carried out side-channel analysis on a commercial contactless smart card that performs 128-bit ARIA encryptions, and we have been able to successfully find all 16 bytes of the ARIA key from the target device. From our experimental results, we conclude that the proposed EMD analysis yields better results than the conventional power analysis. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e999b508e81d4bbdb9f3291df7821f222024-10-03T07:26:27ZengHindawi - SAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772014-03-011010.1155/2014/142610142610Practical Electromagnetic Disturbance Analysis on Commercial Contactless SmartcardsJaedeok Ji0Dong-Guk Han1Seokwon Jung2Sangjin Lee3Jongsub Moon4 Information Technology Team, Korea Testing Certification, 22 Heungan-daero 27 beon-gil, Gunpo-si, Gyeonggi-do 435-823, Republic of Korea Department of Mathematics, Kookmin University, Jeongneung-Ro 77, SeongBuk-Gu, Seoul 136-702, Republic of Korea Department of Information Security, Mokpo National University, 1666 Youngsan-ro, Chenggye-myeon, Muan-gun, Jeollanam-do 534-729, Republic of Korea Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University, Anam-dong 5, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul 136-701, Republic of Korea Graduate School of Information Security, Korea University, Anam-dong 5, Seongbuk-Gu, Seoul 136-701, Republic of KoreaContactless smart cards are being widely employed in electronic passports, monetary payments, access control systems, and so forth, because of their advantages such as convenience and ease of maintenance. In this paper, we present a new side-channel attack method for contactless smart cards. This method exploits the information leakage stemming from electromagnetic disturbances (EMD). We also made a convenient and low-cost EMD reader board that performs side-channel attacks on contactless smart cards. In order to demonstrate that EMDs can become another information-leakage side channel, we have carried out side-channel analysis on a commercial contactless smart card that performs 128-bit ARIA encryptions, and we have been able to successfully find all 16 bytes of the ARIA key from the target device. From our experimental results, we conclude that the proposed EMD analysis yields better results than the conventional power analysis.https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/142610 |
| spellingShingle | Jaedeok Ji Dong-Guk Han Seokwon Jung Sangjin Lee Jongsub Moon Practical Electromagnetic Disturbance Analysis on Commercial Contactless Smartcards International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| title | Practical Electromagnetic Disturbance Analysis on Commercial Contactless Smartcards |
| title_full | Practical Electromagnetic Disturbance Analysis on Commercial Contactless Smartcards |
| title_fullStr | Practical Electromagnetic Disturbance Analysis on Commercial Contactless Smartcards |
| title_full_unstemmed | Practical Electromagnetic Disturbance Analysis on Commercial Contactless Smartcards |
| title_short | Practical Electromagnetic Disturbance Analysis on Commercial Contactless Smartcards |
| title_sort | practical electromagnetic disturbance analysis on commercial contactless smartcards |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/142610 |
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