Paper 2010/385
First-Order Side-Channel Attacks on the Permutation Tables Countermeasure –Extended Version–
Emmanuel Prouff and Robert McEvoy
Abstract
The use of random permutation tables as a side-channel attack countermeasure was recently proposed by Coron [6]. The countermeasure operates by ensuring that during the execution of an algorithm, each intermediate variable that is handled is in a permuted form described by the random permutation tables. In this paper, we examine the application of this countermeasure to the AES algorithm as described in [6], and show that certain operations admit first-order side-channel leakage. New side-channel attacks are developed to exploit these flaws, using correlation-based and mutual information-based methods. The attacks have been verified in simulation, and in practice on a smart card.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. A short version of this paper has been published in the proceedings of CHES 2009 conference.
- Keywords
- Side Channel AttackCountermeasureAES
- Contact author(s)
- e prouff @ oberthur com
- History
- 2010-07-07: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2010/385
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2010/385, author = {Emmanuel Prouff and Robert McEvoy}, title = {First-Order Side-Channel Attacks on the Permutation Tables Countermeasure –Extended Version–}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2010/385}, year = {2010}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2010/385} }