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

N.  Nalla Anandakumar

Paper 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 first-order power analysis attacks.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Publication info: Published elsewhere. SecITC 2015
Keywords: SCA Lightweight Cryptography Sponge functions MAC PHOTON Threshold Implementation.
Contact author(s): nallananth @ gmail com
History: 2015-04-30: last of 2 revisions; 2015-03-04: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2015/197
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/197,
      author = {N.  Nalla Anandakumar},
      title = {{SCA} Resistance Analysis on {FPGA} Implementations of Sponge based {MAC}-{PHOTON}},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/197},
      year = {2015},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/197}
}