ISAP – Towards Side-Channel Secure Authenticated Encryption

Authors

  • Christoph Dobraunig Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
  • Maria Eichlseder Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
  • Stefan Mangard Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
  • Florian Mendel Institute of Applied Information Processing and Communications (IAIK), Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria
  • Thomas Unterluggauer Graz University of Technology, Graz, Austria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13154/tosc.v2017.i1.80-105

Keywords:

authenticated encryption, fresh re-keying, passive side-channel attacks, sponge construction, permutation-based construction

Abstract

Side-channel attacks and in particular differential power analysis (DPA) attacks pose a serious threat to cryptographic implementations. One approach to counteract such attacks are cryptographic schemes based on fresh re-keying. In settings of pre-shared secret keys, such schemes render DPA attacks infeasible by deriving session keys and by ensuring that the attacker cannot collect side-channel leakage on the session key during cryptographic operations with different inputs. While these schemes can be applied to secure standard communication settings, current re-keying approaches are unable to provide protection in settings where the same input needs to be processed multiple times. In this work, we therefore adapt the re-keying approach and present a symmetric authenticated encryption scheme that is secure against DPA attacks and that does not have such a usage restriction. This means that our scheme fully complies with the requirements given in the CAESAR call and hence, can be used like other noncebased authenticated encryption schemes without loss of side-channel protection. Its resistance against side-channel analysis is highly relevant for several applications in practice, like bulk storage settings in general and the protection of FPGA bitfiles and firmware images in particular.

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Published

2017-03-08

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How to Cite

ISAP – Towards Side-Channel Secure Authenticated Encryption. (2017). IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2017(1), 80-105. https://doi.org/10.13154/tosc.v2017.i1.80-105