Fault attacks are among the well-studied topics in the area of cryptography. These attacks constitute a powerful tool to recover the secret key used in the encryption process. Fault attacks work by forcing a device to work under non-ideal environmental conditions (such as high temperature) or external disturbances (such as glitch in the power supply) while performing a cryptographic operation. The recent trend shows that the amount of research in this direction—which ranges from attacking a particular primitive, proposing a fault countermeasure, to attacking countermeasures—has grown up substantially and is going to stay as an active research interest for the foreseeable future. Hence, it becomes apparent to have a comprehensive yet compact study of the (major) works. This work, which covers a wide spectrum in the present-day research on fault attacks that fall under the purview of the symmetric key cryptography, aims at fulfilling the absence of an up-to-date survey. We present mostly all aspects of the topic in a way that is not only understandable for a non-expert reader, but also helpful for an expert as a reference.

故障攻击是密码学领域中深入研究的主题之一。这些攻击构成了恢复加密过程中使用的密钥的强大工具。故障攻击的工作原理是迫使设备在非理想环境条件（如高温）或外部干扰（如电源故障）下工作，同时执行密码操作。最近的趋势表明，这个方向的研究量——从攻击特定原语、提出故障对策到攻击对策——已经大幅增长，并将在可预见的未来保持活跃的研究兴趣。因此，对（主要）作品进行全面而紧凑的研究是显而易见的。这项工作，它涵盖了当今关于属于对称密钥密码学范围内的故障攻击的广泛研究，旨在弥补最新调查的缺失。我们以一种不仅对非专家读者可以理解，而且对专家作为参考也有帮助的方式介绍该主题的所有方面。