Paper 2017/879

Formal Verification of Side-channel Countermeasures via Elementary Circuit Transformations

Jean-Sebastien Coron

Abstract

We describe a technique to formally verify the security of masked implementations against side-channel attacks, based on elementary circuit transforms. We describe two complementary approaches: a generic approach for the formal verification of any circuit, but for small attack orders only, and a specialized approach for the verification of specific circuits, but at any order. We also show how to generate security proofs automatically, for simple circuits. We describe the implementation of CheckMasks, a formal verification tool for side-channel countermeasures. Using this tool, we formally verify the security of the Rivain-Prouff countermeasure for AES, and also the recent Boolean to arithmetic conversion algorithm from CHES 2017.

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Publication info
Published elsewhere. Major revision. ACNS 2018
Keywords
Side-channel countermeasuresmaskingformal verification.
Contact author(s)
jean-sebastien coron @ uni lu
History
2018-04-09: last of 4 revisions
2017-09-13: received
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2017/879
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2017/879,
      author = {Jean-Sebastien Coron},
      title = {Formal Verification of Side-channel Countermeasures via Elementary Circuit Transformations},
      howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2017/879},
      year = {2017},
      note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/879}},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/879}
}
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