[Resource Topic] 2012/028: A First-Order Leak-Free Masking Countermeasure

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Title:
A First-Order Leak-Free Masking Countermeasure

Authors: Houssem MAGHREBI, Emmanuel PROUFF, Sylvain GUILLEY, Jean-Luc DANGER

Abstract:

One protection of cryptographic implementations against side-channel attacks is the masking of the sensitive variables. In this article, we present a first-order masking that does not leak information when the registers change values according to some specific (and realistic) rules. This countermeasure applies to all devices that leak a function of the distance between consecutive values of internal variables. In particular, we illustrate its practicality on both hardware and software implementations. Moreover, we introduce a framework to evaluate the soundness of the new first-order masking when the leakage slightly deviates from the rules involved to design the countermeasure. It reveals that the countermeasure remains more efficient than the state-of-the-art first-order masking if the deviation from the ideal model is equal to a few tens of percents, and that it is as good as a first-order Boolean masking even if the deviation is 50%.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/028

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