Title
Exploring power attack protection of resource constrained encryption engines using integrated low-drop-out regulators
Abstract
The power attack protection of encryption engines often comes at the expense of area, power, and/or performance overheads making the design of a low-power and compact but secure encryption engine challenging. This paper explores the feasibility of using an on-chip low dropout regulator (LDO) as a countermeasure to power attack of low-power and compact encryption engine. We design an area minimized implementation of Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) using predictive 45nm node and show that lightweight implementations are more susceptible to power attack. Using behavioral modeling, we show that an on-chip LDO can enhance power attack resistance of this compact AES engine; however, the tradeoff between LDO performance and power attack protection is essential. Our analysis shows that LDO can increase power attack resistance of the compact AES by >800X with marginal area (1.4%) and power (5%) overheads.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ISLPED.2015.7273503
2015 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Side Channel Attack,Lightweight Cryptography,Hardware Security,IoT security
System on a chip,Disk encryption,Advanced Encryption Standard,Computer science,Disk encryption theory,Disk encryption hardware,Encryption,40-bit encryption,Low-dropout regulator,Embedded system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.51
18
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Arvind Singh161652.25
Monodeep Kar25312.66
Jong Hwan Ko36010.21
Saibal Mukhopadhyay4245.05