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Measurement and Evaluation of Power Analysis Attacks on Asynchronous S-Box
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
  • Jun Wu
  • Yiyu Shi, Missouri University of Science and Technology
  • Minsu Choi, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Abstract

This paper demonstrates the hardware implementation of a recently proposed low-power asynchronous Advanced Encryption Standard substitution box (S-Box) design that is capable of being resistant to side channel attack (SCA). A specified SCA standard evaluation field-programmable gate array (FPGA) board (SASEBO-GII) is used to implement both synchronous and asynchronous S-Box designs. This asynchronous S-Box is based on self-time logic referred to as null convention logic (NCL), which supports a few beneficial properties for resisting SCAs: clock free, dual-rail encoding, and monotonic transitions. These beneficial properties make it difficult for an attacker to decipher secret keys embedded within the cryptographic circuit of the FPGA board. Comparisons on the resistance to SCAs of both the original and proposed S-Box design are presented, using differential power analysis (DPA) and correlation power analysis (CPA) attacks. The power measurement results showed that the NCL S-Box had 22%-26% lower total power consumption than the original and was effective against DPA and CPA attacks. An important factor of successfully implementing DPA or CPA attacks, which is the number of power traces, is also analyzed in this paper.

Department(s)
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
  • Differential Power Analysis (DPA),
  • Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Implementation,
  • Null Convention Logic (NCL),
  • Power Analysis,
  • Security,
  • Side-Channel Attack (SCA),
  • Substitution Box (S-Box),
  • Data Privacy,
  • Differentiating Circuits,
  • Energy Utilization,
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA),
  • Hardware,
  • Correlation Power Analysis (CPA),
  • Energy Consumption,
  • Instrumentation and Measurement,
  • Power/Noise Measurement
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2012 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
10-1-2012
Publication Date
01 Oct 2012
Citation Information
Jun Wu, Yiyu Shi and Minsu Choi. "Measurement and Evaluation of Power Analysis Attacks on Asynchronous S-Box" IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement Vol. 61 Iss. 10 (2012) p. 2765 - 2775 ISSN: 0018-9456; 1557-9662
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/minsu-choi/68/