Title
Optimal side-channel attacks for multivariate leakages and multiple models.
Abstract
Side-channel attacks allow to extract secret keys from embedded systems like smartcards or smartphones. In practice, the side-channel signal is measured as a trace consisting of several samples. Also, several sensitive bits are manipulated in parallel, each leaking differently. Therefore, the informed attacker needs to devise side-channel distinguishers that can handle both multivariate leakages and multiple models. In the state of the art, these two issues have two independent solutions: on the one hand, dimensionality reduction can cope with multivariate leakage; on the other hand, online stochastic approach can cope with multiple models. In this paper, we combine both solutions to derive closed-form expressions of the resulting optimal distinguisher in terms of matrix operations, in all situations where the model can be either profiled offline or regressed online. Optimality here means that the success rate is maximized for a given number of traces. We recover known results for uni- and bivariate models (including correlation power analysis) and investigate novel distinguishers for multiple models with more than two parameters. In addition, following ideas from the AsiaCrypt’2013 paper “Behind the Scene of Side-Channel Attacks,” we provide fast computation algorithms in which the traces are accumulated prior to computing the distinguisher values.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1007/s13389-017-0170-9
J. Cryptographic Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
Side-channel analysis, Optimal distinguishers, Multivariate leakage, Stochastic attacks
Data mining,Dimensionality reduction,Expression (mathematics),Multivariate statistics,Computer science,Smart card,Algorithm,Side channel attack,Bivariate analysis,Matrix multiplication,Computation
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
4
2190-8508
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.48
11
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicolas Bruneau1314.09
Sylvain Guilley216616.61
Annelie Heuser312017.55
Damien Marion492.59
Olivier Rioul59223.54