What is Fault injection attack?
An attack that deliberately makes a chip malfunction with voltage or clock glitches, lasers and the like to bypass authentication or infer keys.
Field: Hardware Security
Fault injection attack in the explanations
A fault injection attack deliberately induces malfunctions by briefly dropping the supply voltage, inserting a short glitch into the clock, or applying a laser or electromagnetic pulse.
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