Title
Transparency Order of (n, m)-Functions-Its Further Characterization and Applications
Abstract
The concept of transparency order is a useful measure for the robustness of (n, m)-functions (cryptographic S-boxes as mappings from GF(2)(n) to GF(2)(m)) to multi-bit Differential Power Analysis (DPA). The recently redefined notion of transparency order (RTO), based on the cross-correlation coefficients, uses a very delicate assumption that the adversary has a priori knowledge about the so called pre-charged logic value (a constant register value set by a system) used in DPA-like attacks. Moreover, quite contradictorily, this constant value is used as a variable when maximizing RTO . To make the attack scenario more realistic, the notion of differential transparency order (DTO) is defined for (n, m)-functions, which can efficiently eliminate the impact posed by this pre-charged logic value. By considering (4, 4) S-boxes which are commonly used in the design of lightweight block ciphers, we deduce in the simulated scenario that the information leakage using DTO is usually larger compared to the standard indicator. Towards its practical applications, we illustrate that the correlation power analysis (CPA) based on the novel notion of DTO performs better than that uses the classical notion of RTO. This conclusion is confirmed in two cases, i.e. CPA against MARVIN and CPA against PRESENT-128.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-91356-4_8
INFORMATION SECURITY (ISC 2021)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
(n, m)-functions, Transparency order, Differential transparency order, Auto-correlation, Cross-correlation
Conference
13118
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0302-9743
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yu Zhou137866.97
Yongzhuang Wei200.68
Hailong Zhang3117.76
Luyang Li401.35
Enes Pasalic536242.34
Wenling Wu600.34