Paper 2012/703

Profiled Model Based Power Simulator for Side Channel Evaluation

Nicolas Debande, Maël Berthier, Yves Bocktaels, and Thanh-Ha Le

Abstract

An embedded cryptographic device performs operation on sensitive data and as such, is vulnerable to side-channel attacks. This forces smart-card manufacturers to carefully consider development of security mechanisms. To accelerate this procedure, the use of power and electromagnetic simulator can be relevant and saves non negligible time. Based on a high level simulator, we propose to use profiled abstract models to gain accuracy on the simulated traces. These abstract models are obtained by profiling some parts of the target device which is physically available by the evaluator.

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Publication info
Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords
Smart CardsPower SimulationSide Channel AnalysisSecurity Evaluation
Contact author(s)
debande @ enst fr
History
2012-12-18: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2012/703
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/703,
      author = {Nicolas Debande and Maël Berthier and Yves Bocktaels and Thanh-Ha Le},
      title = {Profiled Model Based Power Simulator for Side Channel Evaluation},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2012/703},
      year = {2012},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/703}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/703}
}
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