Side Channel Attacks Simulation Environment Design and Implementation for Crypto-Chip

Abstract

Side channel attack(SCA) is a powerful physical safety analysis method, the SCA security assessment for crypto-chip are generally in production, but with time-consuming, safety evaluation error-prone and costly wait for blemish. In order to improve the efficiency, it is necessary at design time to do SCA, but the safety evaluation needs the corresponding side channel simulation tool support. This paper presents the design scheme of SCA simulation environment. The scheme adopts the software and hardware of collaborative design thoughts, and though separating the leak simulation mechanism and safety analysis strategies, SCA simulation environment is established with component technology, can do SCA simulation analysis at design time of the crypto-chip. Compared with the existing PINPAS simulation environment, the environment has flexible and efficient characteristics.