Publication detail

Another Look at Side-Channel-Resistant Encoding Schemes

BREIER, J. HOU, X. KOVAČEVIĆ, M.

Original Title

Another Look at Side-Channel-Resistant Encoding Schemes

Type

journal article in Web of Science

Language

English

Original Abstract

The idea of balancing the side-channel leakage in software was proposed more than a decade ago. Just like with other hiding-based countermeasures, the goal is not to hide the leakage completely but to significantly increase the effort required for the attack. Previous approaches focused on two directions: either balancing the Hamming weight of the processed data or deriving the code by using stochastic leakage profiling. In this brief, we build upon these results by proposing a novel approach that combines the two directions. We provide the theory behind our encoding scheme backed by experimental results on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller. Our results show that such a combination gives better side-channel resistance properties than each of the two methods separately.

Keywords

Coding schemes; countermeasures; encoding; side-channel attacks

Authors

BREIER, J.; HOU, X.; KOVAČEVIĆ, M.

Released

26. 4. 2024

Publisher

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC

Location

PISCATAWAY

ISBN

1557-9999

Periodical

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS

Year of study

32

Number

8

State

United States of America

Pages from

1559

Pages to

1563

Pages count

5

URL

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10508964

BibTex

@article{BUT189021,
  author="Jakub {Breier} and Xiaolu {Hou} and Mladen {Kovačević}",
  title="Another Look at Side-Channel-Resistant Encoding Schemes",
  journal="IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VERY LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION (VLSI) SYSTEMS",
  year="2024",
  volume="32",
  number="8",
  pages="1559--1563",
  doi="10.1109/TVLSI.2024.3390614",
  issn="1557-9999",
  url="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10508964"
}