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Side-channel leakage and trace compression using normalized inter-class variance

Authors:

Jean-Luc Danger,

Sylvain Guilley,

Zakaria NajmAuthors Info & Claims

HASP '14: Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy

Article No.: 7, Pages 1 - 9

https://doi.org/10.1145/2611765.2611772

Published: 15 June 2014 Publication History

Abstract

Security and safety critical devices must undergo penetration testing including Side-Channel Attacks (SCA) before certification. SCA are powerful and easy to mount but often need huge computation power, especially in the presence of countermeasures. Few efforts have been done to reduce the computation complexity of SCA by selecting a small subset of points where leakage prevails. In this paper, we propose a method to detect relevant leakage points in side-channel traces. The method is based on Normalized Inter-Class Variance (NICV). A key advantage of NICV over state-of-the-art is that NICV does neither need a clone device nor the knowledge of secret parameters of the crypto-system. NICV has a low computation requirement and it detects leakage using public information like input plaintexts or output cipher-texts only. It is shown that NICV can be related to Pearson correlation and signal to noise ratio (SNR) which are standard metrics. NICV can be used to theoretically compute the minimum number of traces required to attack an implementation. A theoretical rationale of NICV with some practical application on real crypto-systems are provided to support our claims.

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Index Terms

Side-channel leakage and trace compression using normalized inter-class variance
1. Computer systems organization
  1. Embedded and cyber-physical systems
    1. Embedded systems
      1. Embedded hardware
  2. Real-time systems
2. Hardware
  1. Very large scale integration design
    1. Application-specific VLSI designs
      1. Application specific integrated circuits

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