A Side-channel Analysis Resistant Reconfigurable Cryptographic Coprocessor Supporting Multiple Block Cipher Algorithms

Shan, Weiwei; Shi, Longxing; Fu, Xingyuan; Zhang, Xiao; Tian, Chaoxuan; Xu, Zhipeng; Yang, Jun; Li, Jie

doi:10.1145/2593069.2593077

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“…In order to resist primary leaks and make SCA more challenging, one strategy is hiding and masking [181,215,216]. Camurati et al [181] demonstrated that the physical separation of analogue and digital components or the use of a separate processor for cryptographic operations are two alternative methods for preventing information from leaking into radio signals.…”

Section: Countermeasuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Literature Review of EM-SCA Attacks on Encryption

Zunaidi,

Sayakkara,

Scanlon

2024

Preprint

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Cryptography has become an essential tool in information security, preserving data confidentiality, integrity, and availability. However, despite rigorous analysis, cryptographic algorithms may still be susceptible to attack when used on real-world devices. Side-channel attacks (SCAs) are physical attacks that target cryptographic equipment through quantifiable phenomena such as power consumption, operational times, and EM radiation. These attacks are considered to be a significant threat to cryptography since they compromise the integrity of the algorithm by obtaining the internal cryptographic key of a device by seeing its physical implementation. The literature on SCAs has focused on real-world devices, yet with the growing popularity of sophisticated devices like smartphones, fresh approaches to SCAs are necessary. One such approach is electromagnetic side-channel analysis (EM-SCA), which gathers information by listening to electromagnetic (EM) radiation. EM-SCA has been demonstrated to recover sensitive data like encryption keys and has the potential to identify malicious software, retrieve data, and identify program activity. This study aims to evaluate how well EM-SCA compromises encryption under various application scenarios, as well as examine the role of EM-SCA in digital forensics and law enforcement. Regarding this, addressing the susceptibility of encryption algorithms to EM-SCA approaches can provide digital forensic investigators with the tools they desire to overcome the challenges posed by strong encryption, allowing them to continue playing a crucial role in law enforcement and the justice system. Furthermore, this paper seeks to define the current state of EM-SCA in terms of attacking encryption, the encryption algorithms and encrypted devices that are most vulnerable and resistant to EM-SCA, and the most promising EM-SCA on encryption approaches. This study will provide a comprehensive analysis of EM-SCA in the context of law enforcement and digital forensics and point towards potential directions for further research.

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Section: Countermeasuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Systematic Literature Review of EM-SCA Attacks on Encryption

Zunaidi,

Sayakkara,

Scanlon

2024

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“…Reconfigurable crypto processor with the metrics of dynamic configuration, high performance is suitable for implementing multiple cipher algorithms by reconfigurable computing technology [6,7]. It allows not only randomly insert dummy operation to change the execution time, but also to randomize the usage of the available hardware resources.…”

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DPA countermeasures for reconfigurable crypto processor using non-deterministic execution

Huang

Liu

et al. 2018

IEICE Electron. Express

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This brief proposes a differential power analysis (DPA) countermeasure for reconfigurable crypto processors. This method is verified on Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). The FPGA runs at clock frequency of 10 MHz, and AES algorithm is mapped on the array. Our countermeasure is based on random delay insertion (RDI), meanwhile keep pipeline processing of data. Effective DPA resistance is achieved by generating delays which subject to approximate uniform distribution and rearranging the processing order of data. This method can improve the difficulty of DPA and keep high throughput. This method also adapt to any other hardware pipeline style cipher processor.

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