Paper 2013/842

Detecting Hidden Leakages

Amir Moradi, Sylvain Guilley, and Annelie Heuser

Abstract

Reducing the entropy of the mask is a technique which has been proposed to mitigate the high performance overhead of masked software implementations of symmetric block ciphers. Rotating S-box Masking (RSM) is an example of such schemes applied to AES with the purpose of maintaining the security at least against univariate first-order side-channel attacks. This article examines the vulnerability of a realization of such technique using the side-channel measurements publicly available through DPA contest V4. Our analyses which focus on exploiting the first-order leakage of the implementation discover a couple of potential attacks which can recover the secret key. Indeed the leakage we exploit is due to a design mistake as well as the characteristics of the implementation platform, none of which has been considered during the design of the countermeasure (implemented in naive C code).

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Publication info
Published elsewhere. ACNS 2014
Keywords
side-channel analysisleakage detectionvariance testNICVcorrelation-collisionCPAhidden modelslinear regression.
Contact author(s)
amir moradi @ rub de
History
2014-03-28: revised
2013-12-17: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2013/842
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2013/842,
      author = {Amir Moradi and Sylvain Guilley and Annelie Heuser},
      title = {Detecting Hidden Leakages},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2013/842},
      year = {2013},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/842}
}
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