Differential Power Analysis for AES and Countermeasure

AES에 대한 차분전력분석공격과 대응책

Paul Hocker has developed new attacks based on the electric consumption of cryptographic device such as smartcard that performs cryptographic computation. Among those attacks, the Differential Power Analysis(DPA) is one of the most impressive and most difficult to avoid. By analysing the power dissipation of encryption in a device, the secret information inside can be deduced. This paper presents that Advanced Encryption Standard(AES) is highly vulnerable to DPA and readily leaks away all secret keys through the experimental results for DPA. After all, it is required an implementation of the AES algorithm that is not vulnerable to DPA. We also propose countermeasures that employ asynchronous circuit.