Mobile Threat Catalogue

Differential Power Analysis

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Threat Category: USIM / SIM / UICC security

ID: STA-36

Threat Description: Differential Power Analysis a statistical attack on a cryptographic algorithm which compares a hypothesis with a measured outcome and is often capable of extracting an encryption key from a smart card or other computing device

Threat Origin

A Review of Smartcard Security Issues 1

Exploit Examples

Not Applicable

CVE Examples

Not Applicable

Possible Countermeasures

References

  1. H. Ko and R. Caytiles, “A Review of Smartcard Security Issues,” Journal of Security Engineering, 8, no. 3 (2011): 6. https://docplayer.net/23347975-A-review-of-smartcard-security-issues.html [accessed 10/11/21]