[Resource Topic] 2021/1378: Cryptanalysis of Efficient Masked Ciphers: Applications to Low Latency

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Title:
Cryptanalysis of Efficient Masked Ciphers: Applications to Low Latency

Authors: Tim Beyne, Siemen Dhooghe, Amir Moradi, Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi

Abstract:

This work introduces second-order masked implementations of LED, Midori, SKINNY, and PRINCE ciphers which do not require fresh masks to be updated at every clock cycle. The main idea lies on a combination of the constructions given by Shahmirzadi and Moradi at CHES~2021, and the theory presented by Beyne et al. at Asiacrypt~2020. The presented masked designs only use a minimal number of shares, i.e., three to achieve second-order security, and we make use of a trick to pair a couple of S-boxes to reduce their latency. The theoretical security analyses of our constructions are based on the linear-cryptanalytic properties of the underlying masked primitive as well as SILVER, the leakage verification tool presented at Asiacrypt~2020. To improve this cryptanalytic analysis, we use the \emph{noisy probing model} which allows for the inclusion of noise in the framework of Beyne et al. We further provide FPGA-based experimental security analysis confirming second-order protection of our masked implementations.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/1378

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