Who Watches the Watchers: Attacking Glitch Detection Circuits

ePrint Report: Who Watches the Watchers: Attacking Glitch Detection Circuits

Amund Askeland, Svetla Nikova, Ventzislav Nikov

Over the last decades, fault injection attacks have been demonstrated to be an effective method for breaking the security of electronic devices. Some types of fault injection attacks, like clock and voltage glitching, require very few resources by the attacker and are practical and simple to execute. A cost-effective countermeasure against these attacks is the use of a detector circuit which detects timing violations …

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