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Lucky Green (shamrock@netcom.com)
Fri, 9 Oct 1998 23:42:36 -0700
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-CodherPlunks@toad.com [mailto:owner-CodherPlunks@toad.com]On
> Behalf Of Tim Dierks
> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 19:22
> To: Lucky Green
> Cc: CodherPlunks@toad.com
> Subject: Re: ECC and timing attacks
> We have reason to believe that ECC can be protected against
> timing attacks,
> as can other algorithms. The interesting question is how expensive a
> protected algorithm is: with at least some variants of ECC, it's likely
> that protection is available at a lower computational cost (approaching
> free) than it is with other algorithms, such as RSA.
>
> More clearly, timing attacks are at least theoretically possible against
> some ECC variants, but it's possible that variants of ECC can be protected
> against such attacks easily.
Tim,
Do you have any pointers to papers describing what type of timing attacks
ECC might be susceptible to and how one would defend against such attacks?
Is there such a thing as blinding under ECC? If so how? Again, pointers to
scientific papers would be much appreciated.
TIA,
--Lucky, who clearly needs to learn more about ECC.
The following archive was created by hippie-mail 7.98617-22 on Sat Apr 10 1999 - 01:15:21