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http://dx.doi.org/10.13089/JKIISC.2019.29.4.709

Application and Analysis of Masking Method to Implement Secure Lightweight Block Cipher CHAM Against Side-Channel Attack Attacks  

Kwon, Hongpil (Hoseo University)
Ha, Jaecheol (Hoseo University)
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Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology / v.29, no.4, 2019 , pp. 709-718 More about this Journal
Abstract
A lightweight block cipher CHAM designed for suitability in resource-constrained environment has reasonable security level and high computational performance. Since this cipher may contain intrinsic weakness on side channel attack, it should adopt a countermeasure such as masking method. In this paper, we implement the masked CHAM cipher on 32-bit microprosessor Cortex-M3 platform to resist against side channel attack and analyze their computational performance. Based on the shortcoming of having many round functions, we apply reduced masking method to the implementation of CHAM cipher. As a result, we show that the CHAM-128/128 algorithm applied reduced masking technique requires additional operations about four times.
Keywords
Physical attack; Symmetric cipher CHAM; ARX cipher; Masking method;
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