README.md

CPA Attack on RSA

Python implementation of an attack using CPA on a simplified RSA.

Contributors

• Hugo Serieys
• Alexandre Ladrière

Description

The subject of this lab is in the TP-EMSE-2020.pdf file (in french) and the EMSE folder contains several data sets used for the CPA. Since it is a baby RSA, the key can be retrieved by factorization. The cpa_rsa.py script calculates the key by factorization but also by CPA. The Report.pdf (in french) file explains our implementation of this CPA attack.

Run

First, choose the data set you want to use. In order to do that, go into the file utils.py and modify the value of the DATA_SET variable:

DATA_SET = "12" # Data set number (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, or 15)

To test the script, simply run the following command:

$ python3 cpa_rsa.py

Results

you will get something like the following output:

>>> Key (by factoring) = 0b101101100000001011110000001
>>> Key (by CPA) = 0b101101100000001011110000001
>>> Equal Keys:  True

The result will also be stored in a file called d_DATA-SET-NUMBER.txt (ex: d_12.txt), and a histogram will be displayed, representing the correlation factors for each bit and for each hypothesis (1 or 0).