On Physical Obfuscation of Cryptographic Algorithms.

Autor: Bringer, Julien, Chabanne, Hervé, Icart, Thomas
Zdroj: Progress in Cryptology - INDOCRYPT 2009; 2009, p88-103, 16p
Abstrakt: We describe a solution for physically obfuscating the representation of a cipher, to augment chips resistance against physical threats, by combining ideas from masking techniques and Physical Obfuscated Keys (POKs). With embedded chips – like RFID tags – as main motivation, we apply this strategy to the representation of a Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR). The application of this technique to LFSR-based stream ciphers, such as the Self Shrinking Generator, enables to share key materials between several chips within a system while increasing the resistance of the system against compromise of chips. An extension of our ideas to non-linear ciphers is also presented with an illustration onto Trivium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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