• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.1276-1284
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• 2017

Lightweight Encryption Algorithm (LEA) that was standardized as a lightweight block cipher was implemented with 8-bit data path, and the vulnerability of LEA encryption processor to correlation power analysis (CPA) attack was analyzed. The CPA used in this paper detects correct round keys by analyzing correlation coefficient between the Hamming distance of the computed data by applying hypothesized keys and the power dissipated in LEA crypto-processor. As a result of CPA attack, correct round keys were detected, which have maximum correlation coefficients of 0.6937, 0.5507, and this experimental result shows that block cipher LEA is vulnerable to power analysis attacks. A masking method based on TRNG was proposed as a countermeasure to CPA attack. By applying masking method that adds random values obtained from TRNG to the intermediate data of encryption, incorrect round keys having maximum correlation coefficients of 0.1293, 0.1190 were analyzed. It means that the proposed masking method is an effective countermeasure to CPA attack.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.43-50
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• 2022

Correlation Power Analysis(CPA) is a sub-channel attack method that measures the detailed power consumption of attack target equipment equipped with cryptographic algorithms and guesses the secret key used in cryptographic algorithms with more than 90% probability. Since CPA performs analysis based on statistics, a large amount of data is necessarily required. Therefore, the CPA must measure power consumption for at least about 15 minutes for each attack. In this paper proposes a method of using a Convolutional Neural Network(CNN) capable of accumulating input data and predicting results to solve the data collection problem of CPA. By collecting and learning the power consumption of the target equipment in advance, entering any power consumption can immediately estimate the secret key, improving the computational speed and 96.7% of the secret key estimation accuracy.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.74-80
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• 2012

Recently at SCIS2011, Nakatsu et. al. proposed multi-round Correlation Power Analysis(CPA) on Hardware Advanced Encryption Standard(AES) to improve the performance of CPA with limited number of traces. In this paper, we propose, Multi-Round CPA to retrieve master key using CPA of 1round and 2round on Hardware DES. From the simulation result for the proposed attack method, we could extract 56-bit master key using the 300 power traces of Hardware DES in DPA contes. And it was proved that we can search more master key using multi-round CPA than using single round CPA in limited environments.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.107-112
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• 2020

Ultra-lightweight password CHAM is an algorithm with efficient addition, rotation and XOR operations on resource constrained devices. CHAM shows high computational performance, especially on IoT platforms. However, lightweight block encryption algorithms used on the Internet of Things may be vulnerable to side channel analysis. In this paper, we demonstrate the vulnerability to side channel attack by attempting a first power analysis attack against CHAM. In addition, a safe algorithm was proposed and implemented by applying a masking technique to safely defend the attack. This implementation implements an efficient and secure CHAM block cipher using the instruction set of an 8-bit AVR processor.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.264-271
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• 2021

From an information security perspective, protecting sensitive data requires utilizing algorithms which resist theoretical attacks. However, treating an algorithm in a purely mathematical fashion or in other words abstracting away from its physical (hardware or software) implementation opens the door to various real-world security threats. In the modern age of electronics, cryptanalysis attempts to reveal secret information based on cryptosystem physical properties, rather than exploiting the theoretical weaknesses in the implemented cryptographic algorithm. The correlation power attack (CPA) is a Side-Channel Analysis attack used to reveal sensitive information based on the power leakages of a device. In this paper, we present a power Hacking technique to demonstrate how a power analysis can be exploited to reveal the secret information in AES crypto-core. In the proposed case study, we explain the main techniques that can break the security of the considered crypto-core by using CPA attack. Using two cryptographic devices, FPGA and 8051 microcontrollers, the experimental attack procedure shows that the AES hardware implementation has better resistance against power attack compared to the software one. On the other hand, we remark that the efficiency of CPA attack depends statistically on the implementation and the power model used for the power prediction.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.39-49
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• 2020

In this paper, we show that the Chinese standard block cipher SM4 is vulnerable to the side channel attacks and present a countermeasure to resist them. We firstly validate that the secret key of SM4 can be recovered by differential power analysis(DPA) and correlation power analysis(CPA) attacks. Therefore we analyze the vulnerable element caused by power attack and propose a first order masking-based countermeasure to defeat DPA and CPA attacks. Although the proposed countermeasure unfortunately is still vulnerable to the profiling power attacks such as deep learning-based multi layer perceptron(MLP), it can sufficiently overcome the non-profiling attacks such as DPA and CPA.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.9B
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• pp.1369-1380
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose the efficient Second-Order Differential Power Analysis attack, which has ability to find significant information such as secret key in the devices consisting IT convergence environment such as Smartgrid, Advanced Metering Infrastructure(AMI) and ZigBee-based home networking service. This method helps to find the secret key easily at a device, even though it uses a countermeasure like masking which makes First-Order DPA attack harder. First, we present the performance results of our implementation which implements practical Second-Order DPA attack using the existing preprocessing function, and analyze it. Then we propose a stronger preprocessing function which overcomes countermeasures like masking. Finally, we analyze the results of the Second-Order CPA attack using proposed preprocessing function and verify that proposed scheme is very threatening to the security fields of IT convergence technology through the experimental results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.1013-1022
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• 2014

Correlation Power Analysis (CPA) is a type of Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) that extracts the secret key using the correlation coefficient both side-channel information leakage by cryptography device and intermediate value of algorithms. Attack performance of the CPA is affected by noise and temporal synchronization of power consumption leaked. In the recent years, various researches about the signal processing have been presented to improve the performance of power analysis. Among these signal processing techniques, compression techniques of the signal based on Principal Component Analysis (PCA) has been presented. Selection of the principal components is an important issue in signal compression based on PCA. Because selection of the principal component will affect the performance of the analysis. In this paper, we present a method of selecting the principal component by using the correlation of the principal components and the power consumption is high and a CPA technique based on the principal component that utilizes the feature that the principal component has different. Also, we prove the performance of our method by carrying out the experiment.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.1
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• pp.159-168
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• 2010

In the recent years, power analysis attacks were widely investigated, and so various countermeasures have been proposed. In the case of block ciphers, masking methods that blind the intermediate results in the algorithm computations(encryption, decryption, and key-schedule) are well-known. The type conversion of masking is unavoidable since Boolean operation and Arithmetic operation are performed together in block cipher. Messerges proposed a masking type conversion algorithm resistant general power analysis attack and then it's vulnerability was reported. We present that some of exiting attacks have some practical problems and propose a new power analysis attack on Messerges's algorithm. After we propose the strengthen DPA and CPA attack on the masking type conversion algorithm, we show that our proposed attack is a practical threat as the simulation results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.33-43
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• 2023

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is working on the Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) standardization project, announced four algorithms that have been finalized for standardization. In this paper, we demonstrate through experiments that private keys can be exposed by Correlation Power Analysis (CPA) and Differential Deep Learning Analysis (DDLA) attacks on polynomial coefficient-wise multiplication algorithms that operate in the process of generating signatures using CRYSTALS-Dilithium algorithm. As a result of the experiment on ARM-Cortex-M4, we succeeded in recovering the private key coefficient using CPA or DDLA attacks. In particular, when StandardScaler preprocessing and continuous wavelet transform applied power traces were used in the DDLA attack, the minimum number of power traces required for attacks is reduced and the Normalized Maximum Margines (NMM) value increased by about 3 times. Conseqently, the proposed methods significantly improves the attack performance.