Differential Power Analysis

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An analysis of the variations of the electrical power consumption of a cryptographic module, using advanced statistical methods and/or other techniques, for the purpose of extracting information correlated to cryptographic keys used in a cryptographic algorithm.

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acronym: DPA
plural: Differential Power Analyses
possessive: Differential Power Analysis's
pluralpossessive: Differential Power Analyses'

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