• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.11-17
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• 2012

The HC-128 stram cipher which selected for the final eSTREAM portfolio is suitable for mobile Ad-Hoc network environments because of the ability of high-speed encryption in restricted memory space. In this paper, we analyzed the vulnerability of side channel analysis attack on HC-128 stream cipher. At the first, we explain a flaw of previous theoretical analysis result which defined the complexity of side-channel attack of HC-128 stream cipher as 'low' and then re-evaluate the security against side-channel attack by estimating the concrete complexity for recovering the secret key. As a result, HC-128 stream cipher is relatively secure against side-channel attack since recovering the secret key have $2^{65}$ computation complexity which is higher than other stream cipher's one.