Cryptographic keys are often at the heart of Java Card applications, which often rely on cryptography to protect their data in storage and/or communication. Keys therefore become the most sensitive pieces of data in such applications. All evaluators know that, as getting the values of secret/private keys is the ultimate goal of a security evaluation. […]
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DPA is annoying (again?)
I am currently in Limoges, visiting the University to work on a collaborative research project. The buzz in the computer science department is that Christophe Clavier, one of their researchers, has just won the DPA contest, organized at CHES. And of course, I took the opportunity to discuss that with him. I won’t even start […]