Paper 2020/1347
A Systematic Appraisal of Side Channel Evaluation Strategies
Melissa Azouaoui, Davide Bellizia, Ileana Buhan, Nicolas Debande, Sebastien Duval, Christophe Giraud, Eliane Jaulmes, Francois Koeune, Elisabeth Oswald, Francois-Xavier Standaert, and Carolyn Whitnall
Abstract
In this paper we examine the central question that is how well do side channel evaluation regimes capture the true security level of a product. Concretely, answering this question requires considering the optimality of the attack/evaluation strategy selected by the evaluator, and the various steps to instantiate it. We draw on a number of published works and discuss whether state-of-the-art solutions for the different steps of a side-channel security evaluation offer bounds or guarantees of optimality, or if they are inherently heuristic. We use this discussion to provide an informal rating of the steps' optimality and to put forward where risks of overstated security levels remain.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Security Standardisation Research Conference (SSR) 2020
- Keywords
- side channel attacksevaluationcertificationcommon criteriaFIPS 140
- Contact author(s)
- Elisabeth Oswald @ aau at
- History
- 2020-10-29: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2020/1347
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1347,
author = {Melissa Azouaoui and Davide Bellizia and Ileana Buhan and Nicolas Debande and Sebastien Duval and Christophe Giraud and Eliane Jaulmes and Francois Koeune and Elisabeth Oswald and Francois-Xavier Standaert and Carolyn Whitnall},
title = {A Systematic Appraisal of Side Channel Evaluation Strategies},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/1347},
year = {2020},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1347}
}
