Integrate Built-in Side-Channel and Fault Injection Attack Protection

Even Into Your Existing System-on-Chip

FortiCrypt IP Cores are prebuilt cells of cryptographic modules that can be integrated into your system-on-chip (SoC) design to mitigate the SoC’s vulnerability to security attacks. FortiCrypt IP cores are protected against side-channel attacks and fault injection attacks, such as Differential Power Analysis Attacks, Electromagnetic Emission Analysis Attacks, Differential Fault Attack, Statistical Ineffective Fault attack and others. Side-channel attacks can extract cryptographic keys from target hardware — thus making the hardware unsecure — by analyzing its power consumption or electromagnetic emission. Fault injection attacks can extract keys by injecting functional faults into the hardware and observing the behavior.

By adding FortiCrypt IP Cores to an SoC you may reduce or eliminate the SCA (including Fault Injection) threat without spending the time, money, and effort to analyze and modify your SoC design.

FortifyIQ offers a new generation of products, protected against SCA and FIA, which utilize purely algorithmic, implementation-agnostic algorithms.

AES protected against SCA and FIA, including SIFA

HMAC SHA2 protected against SCA and FIA, including SIFA

Fortify’s AES security evaluation by SGS

“Summary. The leakage analysis (Welch t-test) on over 30 million traces did not show statistically significant first- and second-order differences between trace sets with fixed and random inputs. The template-based DPA analysis, on the pseudo-random trace set for the profiling phase (15 million traces) and on a sub-set of 300k fix input traces for matching phase targeting the first-round S-box output, and template attack on ciphertext, did not indicate any potential information leakage.”

” The results for the soft IP presented in the report were obtained on the TOE which is the basic hardware implementation of the soft IP without additional levels of security (e.g. that are present in a secure silicon layout). Therefore the internal strength of the soft IP itself was evaluated. This indicates that the investigated features and parameters of the soft IP implementation should be robust against SCA and fault injection attacks in different implementations including ASIC. Nevertheless, according to the Common Criteria rules, the strength of the final composite product must be evaluated on its own.”

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