Paper 2005/174
On the Automatic Construction of Indistinguishable Operations
Manuel Barbosa and Dan Page
Abstract
An increasingly important design constraint for software running on ubiquitous computing devices is security, particularly against physical methods such as side-channel attack. One well studied methodology for defending against such attacks is the concept of indistinguishable functions which leak no information about program control flow since all execution paths are computationally identical. However, the constructing such functions by hand is laborious and error prone as their complexity increases. We investigate techniques for automating this process and find that effective solutions can be constructed with only minor amounts of computational effort.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
PS
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
- Keywords
- Side-channel cryptanalysisCountermeasuresSimple Power Analysis
- Contact author(s)
- mbb @ di uminho pt
- History
- 2005-06-13: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2005/174
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2005/174,
author = {Manuel Barbosa and Dan Page},
title = {On the Automatic Construction of Indistinguishable Operations},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2005/174},
year = {2005},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/174}
}
