Cryptographic implementation of RSA for ion fault injection attack

Abstract

Nowadays the RSA cryptographic algorithm is widely used to protect Big Data security and privacy. Fault injection has been proved effective against RSA implementations. Although heavy ions have been long known as a source to cause single event effect (SEE), there is few publication about how the RSA implementations could be compromised by ion strikes. This paper proposes an RSA implementation specifically designed for the ion strike experiment. The design includes the handshake protocol with the microbeam facility, SEE response module, recovery module, fault detection module. This design paves the way to discover to what extend the ion attack will compromise the RSA implementations.