Side Channel Analysis Of Smart Cards

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Presented at Chaos Communication Congress 21 by

Smart cards are used for authentication and for securing transactions. But even if the cryptographic algorithms and the protocols are secure, information about secret data may leak through so called side channels. Examples for side channels are timing of the computation as well as power consumption and electromagnetic emanation of the card. Nowadays cards which are used in security applications are protected against such attacks and are tested by IT security evaluation facilities.