METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROTECTING AGAINST FAULT ATTACK(S) AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING A CACHE MEMORY

摘要

A method is intended for protecting against fault attack(s) an electronic device (ED) comprising hardware and software capable of executing a sensitive process (SP) using a cache memory (CM) and implementing redundancy checks, said method comprising at least a step (i) during which said cache memory (CM) is filled with a first value originating from an external memory (EM), a step (ii) during which said first value is read into said cache memory (CM) and a step (iii) implementing at least a redundancy check, characterized in that it further comprises a fundamental step to guarantee that any redundant reading inside the redundancy check will extract a value from cache memory (CM) which is numerically equal to the genuine value in the external memory (EM).