Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2015/197

SCA Resistance Analysis on FPGA Implementations of Sponge based MAC-PHOTON

N. Nalla Anandakumar

Abstract: PHOTON is a lightweight hash function which was proposed by Guo et al. in CRYPTO 2011. This is used in low-resource ubiquitous computing devices such as RFID tags, wireless sensor nodes, smart cards and mobile devices. PHOTON is built using sponge construction and it provides a new MAC function called MAC-PHOTON. This paper deals with FPGA implementations of MAC-PHOTON and their side-channel attack (SCA) resistance. First, we describe three architectures of the MAC-PHOTON based on the concepts of iterative, folding and unrolling, and we provide their performance results on the Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGAs. Second, we analyse security of the MAC-PHOTON against side-channel attack using a SASEBOGII development board. Finally, we present an analysis of its Threshold Implementation (TI) and discuss its resistance against first-order power analysis attacks.

Category / Keywords: SCA, Lightweight Cryptography, Sponge functions, MAC, PHOTON, Threshold Implementation.

Original Publication (in the same form): SecITC 2015

Date: received 3 Mar 2015, last revised 30 Apr 2015

Contact author: nallananth at gmail com

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Version: 20150430:093712 (All versions of this report)

Short URL: ia.cr/2015/197

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