• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.155-162
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• 2022

The SITM (See-In-The-Middle) attack proposed in CHES 2020 is a type of analysis technique that combines differential cryptanalysis and side-channel analysis, and can be applied even in a harsh environment with a low SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio). This attack targets partial 1^st or higher order masked block cipher, and uses unmasked middle round weakness. PRESENT is a lightweight blockcipher proposed in CHES 2007, designed to be implemented efficiently in a low-power environment. In this paper, we propose SITM attacks on 14-round masked implementation of PRESENT while the previous attacks were applicable to 4-round masked implementation of PRESENT. This indicates that PRESENT has to be implemented with more than 16-round masking to be resistant to our attacks.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.163-170
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• 2022

LEA is a lightweight block cipher developed in Korea in 2013. In this paper, among block cipher operation methods, CTR operation mode and GCM operation mode that provides confidentiality and integrity are implemented. In the LEA-CTR operation mode, we propose an optimization implementation that omits the operation between states through the state fixation and omits the operation through the pre-operation by utilizing the characteristics of the fixed nonce value of the CTR operation mode. It also shows that the proposed method is applicable to the GCM operation mode, and implements the GCM through the implementation of the GHASH function using the Galois Field(2¹²⁸) multiplication operation. As a result, in the case of LEA-CTR to which the proposed technique is applied on 32-bit RISC-V, it was confirmed that the performance was improved by 2% compared to the previous study. In addition, the performance of the GCM operation mode is presented so that it can be used as a performance indicator in other studies in the future.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.1353-1360
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• 2016

We analyze the efficiency of the double-block-length hash functions, Abreast-DM, HIROSE, MDC-2, MJH, MJH-Double based on AES or LEA. We use optimized open-source code for AES, and our implemented source code for LEA. As a result, the hash functions based on LEA are generally more efficient than those, based on AES. In terms of speed, the hash function with LEA are 6%~19% faster than those with AES except for Abreast-DM. In terms of memory, the hash functions with LEA has 20~30 times more efficient than those with AES.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.719-726
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• 2015

As big-data and cloud security technologies become popular, many researchers have recently been conducted on faster and lighter encryption. As a result, National Security Research Institute developed LEA which is lightweight and fast block cipher. To date, there have been various studies on lightweight encryption algorithm (LEA) for speeding up using GPU rather than conventional CPU. However, it is rather difficult to explore any guideline how to manipulate the GPU for the efficient usage of the LEA. Therefore, we introduce a guideline which explains how to implement and design the optimal LEA using GPU.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.807-816
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• 2022

See-In-The-Middle (SITM) is an analysis technique that uses Side-Channel information for differential cryptanalysis. This attack collects unmasked middle-round power traces when implementing block ciphers to select plaintext pairs that satisfy the attacker's differential pattern and utilize them for differential cryptanalysis to recover the key. Romulus, one of the final candidates for the NIST Lightweight Cryptography standardization competition, is based on Tweakable block cipher Skinny-128-384+. In this paper, the SITM attack is applied to Skinny-128-384 implemented with 14-round partial masking. This attack not only increased depth by one round, but also significantly reduced the time/data complexity to 2^14.93/2^14.93. Depth refers to the round position of the block cipher that collects the power trace, and it is possible to measure the appropriate number of masking rounds required when applying the masking technique to counter this attack. Furthermore, we extend the attack to Romulus's Nonce-based AE mode Romulus-N, and Tweakey's structural features show that it can attack with less complexity than Skinny-128-384.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.163-165
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• 2018

GF(p)상 타원곡선 암호(ECC)와 RSA를 단일 하드웨어로 통합하여 구현한 공개키 암호 프로세서를 설계하였다. 설계된 EC-RSA 공개키 암호 프로세서는 NIST 표준에 정의된 소수체 상의 224-비트 타원 곡선 P-224와 2048-비트 키 길이의 RSA를 지원한다. ECC와 RSA가 갖는 연산의 공통점을 기반으로 워드기반 몽고메리 곱셈기와 메모리 블록을 효율적으로 결합하여 최적화된 데이터 패스 구조를 적용하였다. EC-RSA 공개키 암호 프로세서는 Modelsim을 이용한 기능검증을 통하여 정상동작을 확인하였으며, $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 셀 라이브러리로 합성한 결과 11,779 GEs와 14-Kbit RAM의 경량 하드웨어로 구현되었다. EC-RSA 공개키 암호 프로세서는 최대 동작주파수 133 MHz이며, ECC 연산에는 867,746 클록주기가 소요되며, RSA 복호화 연산에는 26,149,013 클록주기가 소요된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.457-465
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• 2015

Internet of Things(IoT) technologies should be able to communication with various embedded platforms. We will need to select an appropriate cryptographic algorithm in various embedded environments because we should consider security elements in IoT communications. Therefore the lightweight block cryptographic algorithm is essential for secure communication between these kinds of embedded platforms. However, the lightweight block cryptographic algorithm has a vulnerability which can be leaked in side channel analysis. Thus we also have to consider side channel countermeasure. In this paper, we will propose the scenario of side channel analysis and confirm the vulnerability for HIGHT algorithm which is composed of ARX structure. Additionally, we will suggest countermeasure for HIGHT against side channel analysis. Finally, we will explain how much the effectiveness can be provided through comparison between countermeasure for AES and HIGHT.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

Lightweight Encryption Algorithm(LEA) was developed by National Security Research Institute(NSRI) in 2013 and targeted to be suitable for environments for big data processing, cloud service, and mobile. LEA specifies the 128-bit message block size and 128-, 192-, and 256-bit key sizes. In this paper, block cipher LEA algorithm which can encrypt and decrypt 128-bit messages is designed using Verilog-HDL. The designed IP for encryption and decryption has a maximum throughput of 874Mbps in 128-bit key mode and that of 749Mbps in 192 and 656Mbps in 256-bit key modes on Xilinx Vertex5. The cryptographic IP of this paper is applicable as security module of the mobile areas such as smart card, internet banking, e-commerce and IoT.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.709-718
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• 2019

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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.423-431
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• 2021

SPECK and SIMON are lightweight block ciphers developed by NSA(National Security Agency), and SIMECK is a new lightweight block cipher that combines the advantages of SPECK and SIMON. In this paper, a large-capacity encryption using SPECK, SIMON, and SIMECK is implemented using a GPU with efficient parallel processing. CUDA library provided by NVIDIA was used, and performance was maximized by using CUDA assembly language PTX to eliminate unnecessary operations. When comparing the results of the simple CPU implementation and the implementation using the GPU, it was possible to perform large-scale encryption at a faster speed. In addition, when comparing the implementation using the C language and the implementation using the PTX when implementing the GPU, it was confirmed that the performance increased further when using the PTX.