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Fault Attack on the DVB Common Scrambling Algorithm

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Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005 (ICCSA 2005)

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The Common Scrambling Algorithm (CSA) is used to encrypt streams of video data in the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) system. The algorithm uses a combination of a stream and a block cipher, apparently for a larger security margin. However these two algorithms share a common key.

In this paper we present a fault attack on the block cipher which can be launched without regarding the stream cipher part. This attack allows us to reconstruct the common key and thus breaks the complete Algorithm.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany

    Kai Wirt

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, via Vanvitelli, 1, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., T2N 1N4, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Marina L. Gavrilova

  3. William Norris Professor, Head of the Computer Science and Engineering Department, University of Minnesota, USA

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  4. Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia, Via Elce di Sotto, 8, P.O. Box, I-06123, Perugia, Italy

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  5. Institute of High Performance Computing, IHCP, 1 Science Park Road, 01-01 The Capricorn, Singapore Science Park II, 117528, Singapore

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  6. School of Computing, Soongsil University, Seoul, Korea

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  7. Clayton School of IT, Monash University, 3800, Clayton, Australia

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  8. OptimaNumerics Ltd, P.O. Box, Belfast, United Kingdom

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Wirt, K. (2005). Fault Attack on the DVB Common Scrambling Algorithm. In: Gervasi, O., et al. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2005. ICCSA 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3481. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11424826_61

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