Paper 2022/523
A side-channel based disassembler for the ARM-Cortex M0
Jurian van Geest and Ileana Buhan
Abstract
The most common application for side-channel attacks is the extraction of secret information, such as key material, from the implementation of a cryptographic algorithm. However, using side-channel information, we can extract other types of information related to the internal state of a computing device, such as the instructions executed and the content of registers. We used machine learning to build a side-channel disassembler for the ARM-Cortex M0 architecture, which can extract the executed instructions from the power traces of the device. Our disassembler achieves a success rate of 99% under ideal conditions and 88.2% under realistic conditions when distinguishing between groups of instructions. We also provide an overview of the lessons learned in relation to data preparation and noise minimization techniques.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Applications
- Publication info
- Published elsewhere. Artificial Intelligence in Hardware Security (AIHWS 2022)
- Contact author(s)
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ileana buhan @ ru nl
jurianvgeest @ gmail com - History
- 2022-05-02: received
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2022/523
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2022/523,
author = {Jurian van Geest and Ileana Buhan},
title = {A side-channel based disassembler for the {ARM}-Cortex M0},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2022/523},
year = {2022},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/523}
}
