• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.109-115
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• 2010

Differential Power Analysis (DPA) is well known as one of efficient physical side-channel attack methods using leakage power consumption traces. However, since the power traces usually include the components irrelevant to the encryption, the efficiency of the DPA attack may be degraded. To enhance the performance of DPA, we introduce a pre-processing technique which extracts the encryption-related parts from the measured power consumption signals. Experimental results show that the DPA attack with the use of the proposed pre-processing method detects correct cipher keys with much smaller number of signals compared to that of the conventional DPA attack.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.18C no.4
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• pp.213-216
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• 2011

Differential Power Analysis is fully affected by various noises including temporal misalignment. Recently, Ryoo et al have introduced an efficient preprocessor method leading to improvements in DPA by removing the noise signals. This paper experimentally proves that the existing preprocessor method is not applied to all processor. To overcome this defect, we propose a Differential Trace Model(DTM). Also, we theoretically prove and experimentally confirm that the proposed DTM suites DPA.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.1047-1062
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• 2022

Differential power analysis (DPA) is disturbed by ghost peaks. There is a phenomenon that the mean absolute difference (MAD) value of the wrong key is higher than the correct key. We propose a compressed key guessing space (CKGS) scheme to solve this problem and analyze the AES algorithm. The DPA based on this scheme is named CKGS-DPA. Unlike traditional DPA, the CKGS-DPA uses two power leakage points for a combined attack. The first power leakage point is used to determine the key candidate interval, and the second is used for the final attack. First, we study the law of MAD values distribution when the attack point is AddRoundKey and explain why this point is not suitable for DPA. According to this law, we modify the selection function to change the distribution of MAD values. Then a key-related value screening algorithm is proposed to obtain key information. Finally, we construct two key candidate intervals of size 16 and reduce the key guessing space of the SubBytes attack from 256 to 32. Simulation experimental results show that CKGS-DPA reduces the power traces demand by 25% compared with DPA. Experiments performed on the ASCAD dataset show that CKGS-DPA reduces the power traces demand by at least 41% compared with DPA.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.135-140
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• 2004

The ID-based cryptosystem and Power Analysis Attack are attracting many researchers and have been developed aggressively to date. Especially, DPA (Differential Power Analysis) attack has been considered to be the most powerful attack against low power devices, such as smart cards. However, these two leading topics are researched independently and have little hewn relations with each other. In this paper, we investigate the effect of power analysis attack against ID based cryptosystem. As a result, we insist that ID-based cryptosystem is secure against DPA and we only need to defend against SPA (Simple Power Analysis).

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.166-168
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• 2010

We investigate the possibility of using adiabatic logic as a countermeasure against differential power analysis (DPA) style attacks to make use of its energy efficiency. Like other dual-rail logics, adiabatic logic exhibits a current dependence on input data, which makes the system vulnerable to DPA. To resolve this issue, we propose a symmetric adiabatic logic in which the discharge paths are symmetric for data-independent parasitic capacitance, and the charges are shared between the output nodes and between the internal nodes, respectively, to prevent the circuit from depending on the previous input data.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.579-586
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• 2018

Simple Power Analysis(SPA) and Differential Power Analysis(DPA) attacks are Side Channel Attacks(SCA) which were introduced in 1999 by Kocher et al [2]. SPA corresponds to attacks in which an adversary directly recovers key material from the inspection of a single measurement trace (i.e. power consumption or electromagnetic radiation). DPA is a more sophisticated attacks in which the leakage corresponding to different measurement traces (i.e. different plaintexts encrypted under the same key) is combined. Defenses against SPA and DPA are difficult, since they essentially only reduce the signal the adversary is reading, PA and DPA. This paper presents a study on rekeying and sponged-based approach against SCA with current secure schemes. We also propose a fixed ISAP scheme with more secure encryption and authentication based on secure re-keying and sponge functions.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07d
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• pp.1399-1402
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• 2003

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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.27-35
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• 2009

Differential Power Analysis (DPA) based on the statistical characteristics of collected signals has been known as an efficient attack for uncovering secret key of crypto-systems. However, the attack performance of this method is affected very much by the temporal misalignment and the noise of collected side channel signals. In this paper, we propose a new method based on wavelet analysis to surmount the temporal misalignment and the noise problem simultaneously in DPA. The performance of the proposed method is then evaluated while analyzing the power consumption signals of Micro-controller chips during a DES operation. The experimental results show that our proposed method based on wavelet analysis requires only 25% traces compared with those of the previous preprocessing methods to uncover the secret key.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institutes of Information Security and Cryptology Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.127-131
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• 2001

스마트카드의 가장 큰 특징 중 하나로 자체적인 보안 기능을 들 수 있다. 하지만, 스마트카드는 내부의 암호 시스템이 수행될 때, 비밀키와 관련된 여러 가지 물리적인 정보를 누출하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 스마트카드의 전력 소비 신호를 이용하여, 내장된 암호 알고리듬의 비밀키를 알아내는 개선된 DPA(differential power analysis)공격을 제안한다. 제안하는 DPA공격은 SRAM에서의 데이터 상태천이를 이용하여 DPA신호의 S/N비를 높임으로써, 보다 효과적인고 강력한 DPA공격이다. 따라서 스마트카드 설계자는 이러한 점을 고려하려 시스템을 설계해야 할 것이다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.39-47
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• 2008

Among previous Side Channel Analysis (SCA) methods, Differential Power Analysis (DPA) based on the statistical characteristics of collected signals has been known as an efficient attack for uncovering secret key of cryptosystems. However, the attack performance of this method is affected very much by the temporal misalignment and noise of collected side channel signals. In this paper, we propose a new method to surmount the noise problem in DPA. The performance of the proposed method is then evaluated while analyzing the power consumption signals of Micro-controller chips during a DES operation. Its performance is then compared to that of the original DPA in the time and frequency domains. When we compare the experimental results with respect to the needed number of traces to uncover the secret key, our proposed method shows the performance enhancement 33% in the time domain and 50% in the frequency domain.