Virtual Analysis and Reduction of Side-Channel Vulnerabilities of Smartcards

Hartog, J.I. den; Vink, Erik P. de

doi:10.1007/0-387-24098-5_7

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“…It simulates the execution of the assembly code and allows to choose an existing target hardware platform (from a list) for a simulation. It might be used during the design and realization of secure smartcard applications [8]. SILK uses higher level of abstraction than PINPAS, it allows to simulate any data and any device, it requires only the source code of the target algorithm and several user-defined parameters.…”

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confidence: 99%

Silk

Veshchikov

2014

Proceedings of the 4th Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop

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This paper proposes a new way of simulating leakage traces using high level of abstraction models and presents a proof of concept implementation simulator called SILK -a tool for leakage simulation for side channel analysis of microcontrollers and microprocessors. SILK is a high level of abstraction simulator that builds a leakage trace based on a source code of an algorithm and several user-defined parameters. One of the main purposes of SILK is data generation for quick analysis of new attacks, countermeasures or preprocessing methods. SILK might also be used to compare different types of attacks, analysis techniques or software countermeasures. This paper presents general structure and parameters of SILK and a typical example of use case. Our experiments were done with two algorithms that run on a microcontroller in order to compare our simulations with real power traces. We compared simulated traces with real power traces using Dynamic Time Warping technique with two different distance metrics. We also compared our simulations with real power traces using Correlation Power Analysis (CPA). We were also able to show that using a high level of abstraction simulation we are able to produce datasets that might be used for side channel analysis. General TermsSecurity

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Veshchikov

2014

Proceedings of the 4th Program Protection and Reverse Engineering Workshop

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“…To the best of our knowledge there is only one simulator developed in JAVA and called PINPAS [9]. It works at the instruction-level in order to do physical attacks.…”

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A Smart Card Power Analysis Simulator

Thuillet

Andouard

2009

2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering

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Side-channel attacks are a great threat to cryptographic algorithms embedded in microcontrollers. This paper proposes a software environment devoted to the analysis of resistance of cryptographic algorithms implementations against differential power attacks. Our method consists in generating execution traces and computing abstractions of these traces at different levels, on the basis on classical consumption models. In particular this allows the user to isolate some parts of its implementation in order to analyze information leakages directly linked to them. The advantage of this environment is twofold. Firstly, it produces precise and differential analysis of a cryptographic algorithm resistance to side-channel attacks. Secondly, it replaces the use of the testbed in the first development stages thus improving the global design process for resistant implementations by making easier interactions between development and validation. To other extends, the design of the simulator relies on a functional style, opening the way to formal proofs of resistance.

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Experiments and Hardware Countermeasures on Power Analysis Attacks

Ahn

Lee

2006

Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2006

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Virtual Analysis and Reduction of Side-Channel Vulnerabilities of Smartcards

Cited by 8 publications

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A Smart Card Power Analysis Simulator

Experiments and Hardware Countermeasures on Power Analysis Attacks

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