• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.62-68
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• 2008

Remote user authentication scheme is a cryptographic tool which permits a server to identify a remote user. In 2007, Wang et al. pointed out that Ku's remote user authentication scheme is vulnerable to a dictionary attack by obtaining some secret information in a smart card using side channel attacks. They also proposed a remote user authentication scheme which is secure against dictionary attack. In this paper, we analyze the protocol proposed by Wang et al. In the paper, it is claimed that the protocol is secure even though some values, which is stored in a smart card, are revealed to an adversary, However, we show that their protocol is insecure if the values are disclosed to an adversary.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.15-23
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• 2017

Template attack is a powerful side-channel analysis technique which can be performed by an attacker who has a test device that is identical to target device. Template attack is consisted of building template in profiling phase and matching the target device using template that were calculated in profiling phase. One methods to improve the success rate of template attack is to better estimate template which is consisted sample mean and sample covariance matrix of gaussian distribution in template profiling. However restriction of power trace in profiling phase led to poor template estimation. In this paper, we propose new method to select noisy power trace in profiling phase. By eliminating noisy power trace in profiling phase, we can construct more advanced mean and covariance matrix which relates to better performance in template attack. We proved that the proposed method is valid through experiments.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.261-269
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• 2014

There are many researches on fast exponentiation algorithm which is used to implement a public key cryptosystem such as RSA. On the other hand, the malicious attacker has tried various side-channel attacks to extract the secret key. In these attacks, an attacker uses the power consumption or electromagnetic radiation of cryptographic devices which is measured during computation of exponentiation algorithm. In this paper, we propose a novel simple power analysis attack on m-ary exponentiation implementation. The core idea of our attack on m-ary exponentiation with pre-computation process is that an attacker controls the input message to identify the power consumption patterns which are related with secret key. Furthermore, we implement the m-ary exponentiation on evaluation board and apply our simple power analysis attack to it. As a result, we verify that the secret key can be revealed in experimental environment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.101-103
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• 2022

Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is widely used in hardware implementations of public-key crypto-systems for IoT devices and V2X communication because it is suitable for efficient hardware implementation and has high security strength. However, ECC-based public-key cryptography is known to have security vulnerabilities against side-channel attacks, so it is necessary to apply countermeasures against security attacks in designing ECC processor. This paper describes a survey on the side-channel attacks and countermeasures applicable to ECC processor design.

• 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.

• 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 Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.1103-1116
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• 2014

Collision attacks using side channel analysis confirm same intermediate value and restore sensitive data of algorithm using this point. In CHES 2011 Clavier and other authors implemented the improved attack using Blacklist so they carried out the attack successfully using less plaintext than before. However they did not refer the details of Blacklist method and just performed algorithms with the number of used plaintext. Therefore in this paper, we propose the specific method to carry out efficient collision attack. At first we define basic concepts, terms, and notations. And using these, we propose various methods. Also we describe facts that greatly influence on attack performance in priority, and then we try to improve the performance of this attack by analyzing the algorithm and structuring more efficient one.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.2 no.9
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• pp.393-398
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• 2013

This paper introduces a new collision attack on first-order masked AES. This attack is a known plaintext attack, while the existing collision attacks are a chosen plaintext attack. In addition, our method is more efficient than the second-order power analysis and requires about 1/27.5 power measurements by comparison with the last collision attack. Some experiment results of this paper support this fact. In this paper, we also introduce a simple countermeasure, which can protect against our attack.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.584-594
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• 2015

To date, many different kinds of logic styles for hardware countermeasures have been developed; for example, SABL, TDPL, and DyCML. Current mode-based logic styles are useful as they consume less power compared to voltage mode-based logic styles such as SABL and TDPL. Although we developed TPDyCML in 2012 and presented it at the WISA 2012 conference, we have further optimized it in this paper using a binary decision diagram algorithm and confirmed its properties through a practical implementation of the AES S-box. In this paper, we will explain the outcome of HSPICE simulations, which included correlation power attacks, on AES S-boxes configured using a compact NMOS tree constructed from either SABL, CMOS, TDPL, DyCML, or TPDyCML. In addition, to compare the performance of each logic style in greater detail, we will carry out a mutual information analysis (MIA). Our results confirm that our logic style has good properties as a hardware countermeasure and 15% less information leakage than those secure logic styles used in our MIA.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.15-25
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• 2011

A differential fault analysis(DFA) is one of the most important side channel attacks on block ciphers. Most block ciphers, such as DES, AES, ARIA, SEED and so on., have been analysed by this attack. In 2008, Wei et al. proposed the first DFA on ARIA-128. Their attack can recover the 128-bit secrey key by about 45 faulty ciphertexts. In this paper, we propose an improved DFA on ARIA-128. We can recover the 12S-bit secret key by only 4 faulty ciphertexts with the computational complexity of O($2^{32}$).