Low-Cost First-Order Secure Boolean Masking in Glitchy Hardware

Abstract

We describe how to securely implement the logical AND of two bits in hardware in the presence of glitches without the need for fresh randomness. As a case study, we design, implement and evaluate a DES core using our AND gate. Our goal is an overall practically relevant tradeoff between area, latency, randomness cost and security. We focus on first-order secure Boolean masking and we do not aim for provable security. The resulting DES engine shows no evidence of first-order leakage in a non-specific leakage assessment with 50M traces.