Spook: Sponge-Based Leakage-Resistant Authenticated Encryption with a Masked Tweakable Block Cipher

Authors

  • Davide Bellizia ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Francesco Berti ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Olivier Bronchain ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Gaëtan Cassiers ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Sébastien Duval ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Chun Guo School of Cyber Science and Technology and Key Laboratory of Cryptologic Technology and Information Security, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, Jinan, China
  • Gregor Leander Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  • Gaëtan Leurent Team SECRET, Inria Paris Research Center, Paris, France
  • Itamar Levi ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Charles Momin ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Olivier Pereira ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Thomas Peters ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • François-Xavier Standaert ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Balazs Udvarhelyi ICTEAM Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
  • Friedrich Wiemer Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13154/tosc.v2020.iS1.295-349

Keywords:

Authenticated encryption, NIST lightweight cryptography standardization effort, leakage-resistance, bitslice ciphers, masking countermeasure, low energy

Abstract

This paper defines Spook: a sponge-based authenticated encryption with associated data algorithm. It is primarily designed to provide security against side-channel attacks at a low energy cost. For this purpose, Spook is mixing a leakageresistant mode of operation with bitslice ciphers enabling efficient and low latency implementations. The leakage-resistant mode of operation leverages a re-keying function to prevent differential side-channel analysis, a duplex sponge construction to efficiently process the data, and a tag verification based on a Tweakable Block Cipher (TBC) providing strong data integrity guarantees in the presence of leakages. The underlying bitslice ciphers are optimized for the masking countermeasures against side-channel attacks. Spook is an efficient single-pass algorithm. It ensures state-of-the-art black box security with several prominent features: (i) nonce misuse-resilience, (ii) beyond-birthday security with respect to the TBC block size, and (iii) multiuser security at minimum cost with a public tweak. Besides the specifications and design rationale, we provide first software and hardware implementation results of (unprotected) Spook which confirm the limited overheads that the use of two primitives sharing internal components imply. We also show that the integrity of Spook with leakage, so far analyzed with unbounded leakages for the duplex sponge and a strongly protected TBC modeled as leak-free, can be proven with a much weaker unpredictability assumption for the TBC. We finally discuss external cryptanalysis results and tweaks to improve both the security margins and efficiency of Spook.

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Published

2020-06-22

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How to Cite

Spook: Sponge-Based Leakage-Resistant Authenticated Encryption with a Masked Tweakable Block Cipher. (2020). IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2020(S1), 295-349. https://doi.org/10.13154/tosc.v2020.iS1.295-349