scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

Introduction to differential power analysis

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
This paper examines how information leaked through power consumption and other side channels can be analyzed to extract secret keys from a wide range of devices and introduces approaches for preventing DPA attacks and for building cryptosystems that remain secure even when implemented in hardware that leaks.
Abstract
The power consumed by a circuit varies according to the activity of its individual transistors and other components As a result, measurements of the power used by actual computers or microchips contain information about the operations being performed and the data being processed Cryptographic designs have traditionally assumed that secrets are manipulated in environments that expose no information beyond the specified inputs and outputs This paper examines how information leaked through power consumption and other side channels can be analyzed to extract secret keys from a wide range of devices The attacks are practical, non-invasive, and highly effective—even against complex and noisy systems where cryptographic computations account for only a small fraction of the overall power consumption We also introduce approaches for preventing DPA attacks and for building cryptosystems that remain secure even when implemented in hardware that leaks

read more

Content maybe subject to copyright    Report

Citations
More filters
Proceedings ArticleDOI

Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution

TL;DR: Spectre as mentioned in this paper is a side channel attack that can leak the victim's confidential information via side channel to the adversary. And it can read arbitrary memory from a victim's process.
Journal ArticleDOI

A Primer on Hardware Security: Models, Methods, and Metrics

TL;DR: This paper systematizes the current knowledge in this emerging field, including a classification of threat models, state-of-the-art defenses, and evaluation metrics for important hardware-based attacks.
Book ChapterDOI

RSA Key Extraction via Low-Bandwidth Acoustic Cryptanalysis

TL;DR: A new acoustic cryptanalysis attack is described which can extract full 4096-bit RSA keys from the popular GnuPG software, within an hour, using the sound generated by the computer during the decryption of some chosen ciphertexts.
Journal ArticleDOI

A survey of microarchitectural timing attacks and countermeasures on contemporary hardware

TL;DR: This work surveys recent attacks that exploit microarchitectural features in shared hardware, especially as they are relevant for cloud computing, and classify types of attacks according to a taxonomy of the shared resources leveraged for such attacks.
Proceedings ArticleDOI

Security attacks in IoT: A survey

TL;DR: A state of the art survey about the various attacks on IoT have been presented and compared including their efficiency and damage level in IoT.
References
More filters
Book ChapterDOI

Differential Power Analysis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine specific methods for analyzing power consumption measurements to find secret keys from tamper resistant devices. And they also discuss approaches for building cryptosystems that can operate securely in existing hardware that leaks information.
Book ChapterDOI

Timing Attacks on Implementations of Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems

TL;DR: By carefully measuring the amount of time required to perform private key operalions, attackers may be able to find fixed Diffie-Hellman exponents, factor RSA keys, and break other cryptosystems.
Journal ArticleDOI

Differential cryptanalysis of DES-like cryptosystems

TL;DR: A new type of cryptanalytic attack is developed which can break the reduced variant of DES with eight rounds in a few minutes on a personal computer and can break any reduced variantof DES (with up to 15 rounds) using less than 256 operations and chosen plaintexts.
Book ChapterDOI

Correlation Power Analysis with a Leakage Model

TL;DR: A classical model is used for the power consumption of cryptographic devices based on the Hamming distance of the data handled with regard to an unknown but constant reference state, which allows an optimal attack to be derived called Correlation Power Analysis.