Paper 2021/734

First-Order Hardware Sharings of the AES

Siemen Dhooghe and Svetla Nikova and Vincent Rijmen

Abstract

We provide three first-order sharings of the AES each allowing for a different trade-off between the number of shares and the number of register stages. All sharings use a generalization of the changing of the guards method by allowing randomness to be used in the shared S-box. As a result, the sharings have minimal randomness requirements. The sharings are written out in detail to ease implementation efforts.