This paper presents a novel fault attack against Substitution Permutation Networks. The main advantage of the method is an absence of necessity to know the exact cipher's input and output values. The attack relies only on the number of faulty ciphertexts originated from the same unknown plaintext. The underlying model is a multiple bitset or bit-reset faults injected several times at the same intermediate round state. This method can be applied against any round thus any round key can be extracted. The attack was shown to be efficient by simulation against several SPN block ciphers.
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