Machine learning techniques represent a powerful paradigm in side-channel analysis, but they come with a price. Selecting the appropriate algorithm as well as the parameters can sometimes be a difficult task. Nevertheless, the results obtained usually justify such an effort. However, a large part of those results use simplification of the data relation and in fact do not consider all the availa...

ETRI Journal, Volume 30, Number 1, February 2008 Since many efficient algorithms for implementing pairings have been proposed such as ηT pairing and the Ate pairing, pairings could be used in constraint devices such as smart cards. However, the secure implementation of pairings has not been thoroughly investigated. In this paper, we investigate the security of ηT pairing over binary fields in t...

This chapter compares Peter Montgomery's modular multiplication method with traditional techniques for suitability on hardware platforms. It also covers systolic array implementations and side channel leakage. 3.

In this paper we study and give the first detailed benchmarks on existing implementations of the secp256k1 elliptic curve used by at least hundreds of thousands of users in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Our implementation improves the state of the art by a factor of 2.5, with focus on the cases where side channel attacks are not a concern and a large quantity of RAM is available. As a res...

Jump registers were recently proposed [SASC04] as building blocks for stream ciphers. In this paper a construction based on these principles is described. The proposed encryption primitive is a synchronous stream cipher accommodating a key of 128 bits and an IV of 64 up to 162 bits, or an 80-bit key and 32 to 108 bit IV. Version 3 comes as a final submission for the second phase of the eSTREAM ...

Our contribution is twofold: first we describe a very compact hardware implementation of AES-128, which requires only 2400 GE. This is to the best of our knowledge the smallest implementation reported so far. Then we apply the threshold countermeasure by Nikova et al. to the AES S-box and yield an implementation of the AES improving the level of resistance against first-order side-channel attac...

Side-channel attacks represent one of the most powerful category of attacks on cryptographic devices with profiled attacks in a prominent place as the most powerful among them. Indeed, for instance, template attack is a well-known real-world attack that is also the most powerful attack from the information theoretic perspective. On the other hand, machine learning techniques have proven their q...

The recent developments of side channel attacks have lead implementers to use more and more sophisticated countermeasures in critical operations such as modular exponentiation, or scalar multiplication in the elliptic curve setting. In this paper, we propose a new attack against a classical implementation of these operations that only requires two queries to the device. The complexity of this s...

We present an active droplet merging device, which can merge various sizes of micro droplets in different numbers by using pneumatically controlled horizontal PDMS microvalves. The merging part consists of a main and side channels separated by a pillar array. The pillar array structure is contained within a microfuidic channel. The function of the pillar array provides a bypass path to the cont...

Since the introduction of side channel attacks in the nineties, a large amount of work has been devoted to their effectiveness and efficiency improvements. On the one side, general results and conclusions are drawn in theoretical frameworks, but the latter ones are often set in a too ideal context to capture the full complexity of an attack performed in real conditions. On the other side, pract...