Decomposed S-Boxes and DPA Attacks: A Quantitative Case Study Using PRINCE

Autor: Dillibabu Shanmugam, Ravikumar Selvam, Jothi Rangasamy, Suganya Annadurai
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering ISBN: 9783319494449
SPACE
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-49445-6_10
Popis: Lightweight ciphers become indispensable and inevitable in the ubiquitous smart devices. However, the security of ciphers is often subverted by various types of attacks, especially, implementation attacks such as side-channel attacks. These attacks emphasise the necessity of providing efficient countermeasures. In this paper, our contribution is threefold: First, we propose a method to choose the efficient decomposition of S-box in terms of area. Then we slightly alter the widely used formula to improve the accuracy for weighted sum estimation of the shared S-Box and present the practical implementation of two level decomposition using PRINCE S-Box. Finally, we present the first quantitative study on the efficacy of Transparency Order (TO) of decomposed S-Boxes in thwarting a side-channel attack. For PRINCE S-Box we observe that TO-based decomposed implementation has better DPA resistivity than the naive implementation. To benchmark the DPA resistivity of TO(decomposed S-Box) implementation we arrive at an efficient threshold implementation of PRINCE, which itself merits to be an interesting contribution.
Databáze: OpenAIRE