Efficiency of a Combined Protection Method against Correlation

Authors

  • Horia-Nicolai L. Teodorescu Technical Univ. Gh Asachi Iasi, Romania Romanian Academy
  • Emanuel-Florin Iftene "Gheorghe Asachi" Technical University of Iasi Romania, Iasi, 8 Bd. Carol I,

Keywords:

physical security, protection, hardware, side attack, chaos, control signal, security evaluation

Abstract

We analyze the eciency of the masking of instruction patterns using a chaotic driven clock and power supply, in front of a side attack intruding the power supply of a microsystem. The differential analysis is supposedly conducted by correlation power analysis. We demonstrate that the use of a chaotically-driven masking based on relatively simple circuits may be a signicant candidate for the protection of embedded systems.

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Published

2014-01-03

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