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Low-Power Side-Channel Attack-Resistant Asynchronous S-Box Design for AES Cryptosystems
Proceedings of the 20th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (2010, Providence, RI)
  • Jun Wu
  • Yong-Bin Kim
  • Minsu Choi, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

In this work, a novel asynchronous combinational S-Box (substitution box) design for AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) cryptosystems is proposed and validated. The S-Box is considered as the most critical component in AES crypto-circuits since it consumes the most power and leaks the most information against side-channel attacks. The proposed design is based on a delay-insensitive logic paradigm known as Null Convention Logic (NCL). The proposed NCL S-Box provides considerable benefits over existing designs since it consumes less power therefore suitable for energy-constrained mobile crypto-applications. It also emits less noise and has flatter power peaks therefore leaks less information against side-channel attacks such as differential power/noise analysis. Functional verification, analog simulation and power measurement of NCL S-Box have been done using Mentor Graphics EDA (Electronic Design Automation) tools to assure low-power side-channel attack-resistant operation of the proposed clock-free AES S-Box design.

Meeting Name
20th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI: GLSVLSI (2010: May 16-18, Providence, RI)
Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Advanced Encryption Standard,
  • Analog Simulations,
  • Critical Component,
  • Cryptosystems,
  • Electronic Design Automation,
  • Energy-Constrained,
  • Functional Verification,
  • Logic Paradigm,
  • Low Power,
  • Mentor Graphics,
  • Null Convention Logic,
  • Power Measurement,
  • S-Box Design,
  • Side Channel Attack (SCA),
  • Substitution Boxes,
  • Computer Aided Design,
  • Differentiating Circuits,
  • Lakes,
  • Network Security,
  • Standards,
  • Cryptography,
  • Differential Power/Noise Analysis,
  • Power/Noise Measurement,
  • Security,
  • Substitution Box (S-Box)
International Standard Book Number (ISBN)
978-1450300124
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2010 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
5-1-2010
Publication Date
01 May 2010
Citation Information
Jun Wu, Yong-Bin Kim and Minsu Choi. "Low-Power Side-Channel Attack-Resistant Asynchronous S-Box Design for AES Cryptosystems" Proceedings of the 20th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (2010, Providence, RI) (2010) p. 459 - 464
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/minsu-choi/66/