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Title:
Security Evaluations Beyond Computing Power: How to Analyze Side-Channel Attacks you Cannot Mount?
Authors: Nicolas Veyrat-Charvillon, Benoît Gérard, François-Xavier Standaert
Abstract:Present key sizes for symmetric cryptography are usually required to be at least 80-bit long for short-term protection, and 128-bit long for long-term protection. However, current tools for security evaluations against side-channel attacks do not provide a precise estimation of the remaining key strength after some leakage has been observed, e.g. in terms of number of candidates to test. This leads to an uncomfortable situation, where the security of an implementation can be anywhere between enumerable values (i.e. 2^{40} – 2^{50} key candidates to test) and the full key size (i.e. 2^{80} – 2^{128} key candidates to test). In this paper, we mitigate this important issue, and describe a key rank estimation algorithm that provides tight bounds for the security level of leaking cryptographic devices. As a result and for the first time, we are able to analyze the full complexity of “standard” (i.e. divide-and-conquer) side-channel attacks, in terms of their tradeoff between time, data and memory complexity.
ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/578
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