Title
Masks Will Fall Off - Higher-Order Optimal Distinguishers.
Abstract
Higher-order side-channel attacks are able to break the security of cryptographic implementations even if they are protected with masking countermeasures. In this paper, we derive the best possible distinguishers (High-Order Optimal Distinguishers or HOOD) against masking schemes under the assumption that the attacker can profile. Our exact derivation admits simple approximate expressions for high and low noise and shows to which extent the optimal distinguishers reduce to known attacks in the case where no profiling is possible. From these results, we can explain theoretically the empirical outcome of recent works on second-order distinguishers. In addition, we extend our analysis to any order and to the application to masked tables precomputation. Our results give some insight on which distinguishers have to be considered in the security analysis of cryptographic devices.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2015
ADVANCES IN CRYPTOLOGY - ASIACRYPT 2014, PT II
Side-channel analysis,higher-order masking,masking tables,higher-order optimal distinguisher (HOOD),template attack
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Journal
8874
0302-9743
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolas Bruneau1314.09
Sylvain Guilley229233.07
Annelie Heuser312017.55
Olivier Rioul49223.54