Simple photonic emission attack with reduced data complexity

Elad Carmon, Jean Pierre Seifert, Avishai Wool

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Abstract

This work proposes substantial algorithmic enhancements to the SPEA of Schlösser et al. [15] by adding cryptographic postprocessing, and improved signal processing to the photonic measurement phase. Our improved approach provides three crucial benefits: (1) For some SBox/SRAM configurations the original SPEA method is unable to identify a unique key, and terminates with up to 248 key candidates; using our new solver we are able to find the correct key regardless of the respective SBox/SRAM configuration. (2) Our methods reduce the number of required (complex photonic) measurements by an order of magnitude, thereby shortening the duration of the attack significantly. (3) Due to the unavailability of the attack equipment of Schlösser et al. [15] we additionally developed a novel Photonic Emission Simulator which we matched against the real equipment of the original SPEA work. With this simulator we were able to verify our enhanced SPEA by a full AES recovery which uses only a small number of photonic measurements.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationConstructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design - 7th International Workshop, COSADE 2016, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsFrançois-Xavier Standaert, Elisabeth Oswald
Pages35-51
Number of pages17
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event7th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2016 - Graz, Austria
Duration: 14 Apr 201615 Apr 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9689

Conference

Conference7th International Workshop on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design, COSADE 2016
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityGraz
Period14/04/1615/04/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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