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Power Balanced Circuits for Leakage-Power-Attacks Resilient Design

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Basel Halak, Professor Alex Yakovlev

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Abstract

The continuous rise of static power consumption in modern CMOS technologies has led to the creation of a novel class of security attacks on cryptographic systems. The latter exploits the correlation between leakage current and the input patterns to infer the secret key; it is called leakage power analysis (LPA). The use power-balanced (m-of-n) logic is a promising solution that provides an answer to this problem, such circuits are designed to consume constant amount of power regardless of data being processed. This work evaluates the security of cryptographic circuits designed with this technology against the newly developed LPA. Two forms of LPA are investigated, one is based on differential power analysis (LDPA) and the other based on Hamming weight analysis (LHPA). Simulations performed at 90nm CMOS technology reveal that (m-of-n) circuits are totally resilient to LHPA and have a higher security level against LDPA than standard logic circuits.


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Author(s): Halak B, Murphy J, Yakovlev A

Publication type: Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

Publication status: Published

Conference Name: Science and Information Conference (SAI) 2015

Year of Conference: 2015

Pages: 1178-1183

Online publication date: 03/09/2015

Acceptance date: 01/01/1900

Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SAI.2015.7237294

DOI: 10.1109/SAI.2015.7237294

Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item

Series Title: Science and Information Conference (SAI), 2015

ISBN: 9781479985470


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