Paper 2017/1110
On the Relevance of Feature Selection for Profiled Side-channel Attacks
Stjepan Picek and Annelie Heuser and Alan Jovic and Axel Legay
Abstract
In the process of profiled side-channel analysis there is a number of steps one needs to make. One important step that is often conducted without a proper attention is selection of the points of interest (features) within the side-channel measurement trace. Most of the related work start with an assumption that the features are selected and various attacks are then considered and compared to find the best approach. In this paper, we concentrate on the feature selection step and show that if a proper selection is done, most of the attack techniques offer satisfactory results. We investigate how more advanced feature selection techniques stemming from the machine learning domain can be used to improve the side-channel attack efficiency. Our results show that the so-called Hybrid feature selection methods result in the best classification accuracy over a wide range of test scenarios and number of features selected.
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- Available format(s)
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- Profiled side-channel attacksfeature selectionmachine learningL1 regularization
- Contact author(s)
- annelie heuser @ irisa fr
- History
- 2020-12-07: last of 2 revisions
- 2017-11-20: received
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- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2017/1110
- License
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CC BY