Comodo
Cryptography expert to speak at IEEE Symposium on Computer
Arithmetic [May 31, 2005]
Partial
information leakage poses major threat for SmartCard
manufacturers
New
Jersey 31st May 2005 Comodo, the leading global provider
of Risk Alignment™ Services announce that Dr Colin
Walter will be speaking at the forthcoming 17th IEEE
Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (http://arith17.polito.it/)
. Dr Walter, Comodo's Head of Cryptography, will present
a paper on data leakage from multipliers during the
conference at Cape Cod, 27-29 June.
His
paper confirms that the hardware multiplier is indeed
a major source of key leakage, but also that choosing
a different multiplier can mitigate the problem. An
early version of his paper can be downloaded from Comodo's
research web pages at http://www.comodogroup.com/research/crypto/CDW_IEEETC_02.pdf
Speaking about the upcoming presentation, Colin remarked:
“Partial information about secret cryptographic
keys is known to leak from most cryptographic hardware
as a result of voltage, timing and EMR variations in
particular. This is probably the major concern of smartcard
manufacturers at the moment, far exceeding the risks
posed by the possible discovery of mathematical attacks
on the message I/O of cryptographic processes”
Dr.
Walter is internationally known for his insights into
side channel leakage of secret key data and contributes
regularly to the main cryptography journals and conferences.
He is general chair of the next CHES conference (Cryptographic
Hardware and Embedded Systems www.chesworkshop.org),
which takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, 29 August
- 1 September 2005.
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