A Low-Overhead Countermeasure against Differential Power Analysis for AES Block Cipher

This paper presents the employment of a DPA attack on the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) standardized AES (advance encryption standard) protocol for key retrieval and prevention. Towards key retrieval, we applied the DPA attack on AES to obtain a 128-bit secret key by measurin...

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Autores principales:	Muhammad Asfand Hafeez, Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi , Hassan Tariq, Amer Aljaedi, Asfa Javed, Adel R. Alharbi
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Publicado:	MDPI AG 2021
Materias:	AES block cipher side-channel attacks differential power analysis Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:2120fddc0524461b800301afca9a58d82021-11-11T15:20:21ZA Low-Overhead Countermeasure against Differential Power Analysis for AES Block Cipher10.3390/app1121103142076-3417https://doaj.org/article/2120fddc0524461b800301afca9a58d82021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/11/21/10314https://doaj.org/toc/2076-3417This paper presents the employment of a DPA attack on the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) standardized AES (advance encryption standard) protocol for key retrieval and prevention. Towards key retrieval, we applied the DPA attack on AES to obtain a 128-bit secret key by measuring the power traces of the computations involved in the algorithm. In resistance to the DPA attack, we proposed a countermeasure, or a new modified masking scheme, comprising (i) Boolean and (ii) multiplicative masking, for linear and non-linear operations of AES, respectively. Furthermore, we improved the complexity involved in Boolean masking by introducing Rebecca’s approximation. Moreover, we provide a novel solution to tackle the zero mask problem in multiplicative masking. To evaluate the power traces, we propose our custom correlation technique, which results in a decrease in the calculation time. The synthesis results for original implementation (without countermeasure) and inclusion of countermeasure are given on a Zynq 7020 FPGA (Artix-7 device). It takes 424 FPGA slices when implemented without considering the countermeasure, whereas 714 slices are required to implement AES with the inclusion of the proposed countermeasure. Consequently, the implementation results provide the acceptability of this work for area-constrained applications that require prevention against DPA attacks.Muhammad Asfand HafeezMohammad Mazyad Hazzazi Hassan TariqAmer AljaediAsfa JavedAdel R. AlharbiMDPI AGarticleAESblock cipherside-channel attacksdifferential power analysisTechnologyTEngineering (General). Civil engineering (General)TA1-2040Biology (General)QH301-705.5PhysicsQC1-999ChemistryQD1-999ENApplied Sciences, Vol 11, Iss 10314, p 10314 (2021)
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topic	AES block cipher side-channel attacks differential power analysis Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999
spellingShingle	AES block cipher side-channel attacks differential power analysis Technology T Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) TA1-2040 Biology (General) QH301-705.5 Physics QC1-999 Chemistry QD1-999 Muhammad Asfand Hafeez Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi Hassan Tariq Amer Aljaedi Asfa Javed Adel R. Alharbi A Low-Overhead Countermeasure against Differential Power Analysis for AES Block Cipher
description	This paper presents the employment of a DPA attack on the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) standardized AES (advance encryption standard) protocol for key retrieval and prevention. Towards key retrieval, we applied the DPA attack on AES to obtain a 128-bit secret key by measuring the power traces of the computations involved in the algorithm. In resistance to the DPA attack, we proposed a countermeasure, or a new modified masking scheme, comprising (i) Boolean and (ii) multiplicative masking, for linear and non-linear operations of AES, respectively. Furthermore, we improved the complexity involved in Boolean masking by introducing Rebecca’s approximation. Moreover, we provide a novel solution to tackle the zero mask problem in multiplicative masking. To evaluate the power traces, we propose our custom correlation technique, which results in a decrease in the calculation time. The synthesis results for original implementation (without countermeasure) and inclusion of countermeasure are given on a Zynq 7020 FPGA (Artix-7 device). It takes 424 FPGA slices when implemented without considering the countermeasure, whereas 714 slices are required to implement AES with the inclusion of the proposed countermeasure. Consequently, the implementation results provide the acceptability of this work for area-constrained applications that require prevention against DPA attacks.
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author	Muhammad Asfand Hafeez Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi Hassan Tariq Amer Aljaedi Asfa Javed Adel R. Alharbi
author_facet	Muhammad Asfand Hafeez Mohammad Mazyad Hazzazi Hassan Tariq Amer Aljaedi Asfa Javed Adel R. Alharbi
author_sort	Muhammad Asfand Hafeez
title	A Low-Overhead Countermeasure against Differential Power Analysis for AES Block Cipher
title_short	A Low-Overhead Countermeasure against Differential Power Analysis for AES Block Cipher
title_full	A Low-Overhead Countermeasure against Differential Power Analysis for AES Block Cipher
title_fullStr	A Low-Overhead Countermeasure against Differential Power Analysis for AES Block Cipher
title_full_unstemmed	A Low-Overhead Countermeasure against Differential Power Analysis for AES Block Cipher
title_sort	low-overhead countermeasure against differential power analysis for aes block cipher
publisher	MDPI AG
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/2120fddc0524461b800301afca9a58d8
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A Low-Overhead Countermeasure against Differential Power Analysis for AES Block Cipher

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