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An AES crypto-processor has been fabricated to investigate the security properties of an alternating spacer dual-rail logic style and a security based design flow; which introduces a previously unused state in differential power-balancing. The fruits of which offer a tangible solution to information leakage during the life-time of a smartcard's secret key, whilst crucially keeping the usually expensive costs of increased smartcard security to a minimum: design economics, area and power. Power analysis on the device results in a forty fold increase in the number of power measurements needed to crack the 128-bit secret key over an unmodified and architecturally identical design. Area is only increased by 88% compared to 3-4x in other reported power-balancing methods [7], [8], [9].
Author(s): Murphy J, Yakovlev A
Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)
Publication status: Published
Conference Name: ESSCIRC 2006: Proceedings of the 32nd European Solid-State Circuits Conference
Year of Conference: 2006
Pages: 126-129
ISSN: 1930-8833
Publisher: IEEE
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIR.2006.307547
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIR.2006.307547
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ISBN: 1424403030
