Title
Strong 8-bit Sboxes with efficient masking in hardware extended version.
Abstract
Block ciphers are arguably the most important cryptographic primitive in practice. While their security against mathematical attacks is rather well understood, physical threats such as side-channel analysis (SCA) still pose a major challenge for their security. An effective countermeasure to thwart SCA is using a cipher representation that applies the threshold implementation (TI) concept. However, there are hardly any results available on how this concept can be adopted for block ciphers with large (i.e., 8-bit) Sboxes. In this work we provide a systematic analysis on and search for 8-bit Sbox constructions that can intrinsically feature the TI concept, while still providing high resistance against cryptanalysis. Our study includes investigations on Sboxes constructed from smaller ones using Feistel, SPN, or MISTY network structures. As a result, we present a set of new Sboxes that not only provide strong cryptographic criteria, but are also optimized for TI. We believe that our results will find an inspiring basis for further research on high-security block ciphers that intrinsically feature protection against physical attacks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s13389-017-0156-7
J. Cryptographic Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Side-channel analysis, Masking, Threshold Implementation, Sbox
Countermeasure,Cipher,Block cipher,Masking (art),Computer science,Cryptography,8-bit,Cryptanalysis,Cryptographic primitive,Theoretical computer science
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
2
2190-8508
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
23
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Erik Boss110.37
Vincent Grosso21959.87
Tim Güneysu392477.37
Gregor Leander4128777.03
Amir Moradi596080.66
Tobias Schneider6174.83