Title
Template Attacks with Partial Profiles and Dirichlet Priors: Application to Timing Attacks.
Abstract
In order to retrieve the secret key in a side-channel attack, the attacker computes distinguisher values using all the available data. A profiling stage is very useful to provide some a priori information about the leakage model. However, profiling is essentially empirical and may not be exhaustive. Therefore, during the attack, the attacker may come up on previously unseen data, which can be troublesome. A lazy workaround is to ignore all such novel observations altogether. In this paper, we show that this is not optimal and can be avoided. Our proposed techniques eventually improve the performance of classical information-theoretic distinguishers in terms of success rate.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1145/2948618.2948625
HASP@ISCA
Field
DocType
Citations 
Data mining,Workaround,Profiling (computer programming),Computer science,A priori and a posteriori,Timing attack,Cache miss,Dirichlet distribution,Prior probability
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eloi de Chérisey101.01
Sylvain Guilley229233.07
Olivier Rioul39223.54
Darshana Jayasinghe4115.70