Exploratory study of Timing Attack on RSA cryptosystem

This paper makes an exploratory bibliographic analysis of the Timing Attack (TA) technique on the Side Channel Attacks (SCA) in RSA. The information assets, operation modes and countermeasures of 22 papers were analyzed. Findings show that smartcards are the most attacked information assets (32%), blinding is the most applied countermeasure (33%) and the Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) or Montgomery Multiplication (MM) with CRT are the most frequent operation modes (41%). Furthermore, just one attack was executed in telecom unication systems, this opens the possibilty for future work, analyzing the same technique using the tecnologies WiMAX and the SIP VoIP protocol.