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Power Analysis Attack Based on Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network

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Frontiers in Cyber Security (FCS 2022)

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Since the beginning of the 21st century, modern information technology and electronic integrated circuit technology have developed rapidly. In the chip industry, the ability to resist side-channel attacks has become an important indicator for international mainstream evaluation agencies to evaluate chip security. This paper proposes an improved method for side channel analysis based on the \({CNN}_{best}\) model, incorporating a lightweight combined channel and space convolutional attention module, optimising the position of the attention module, improving the learning efficiency of key features of the power consumption curve, and effectively reducing the number of traces used by the attack model. The addition of dropout layer network structure solves the problem that the model is prone to rapid overfitting. The optimal value of drop rate is sought through comparative experiments to speed up the convergence of the model and reduce the number of traces required for a successful attack. The experimental results show that the number of traces required by the method in this paper for side-channel attacks is reduced by 88% compared with the original model, which significantly improves the attack performance and can meet the requirements of side-channel modeling and analysis.

This work was supported by the Academic Research Projects of Beijing Union University (SK160202103).

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  1. Beijing Key Laboratory of Information Service Engineering, Beijing, 100101, China

    Xiang Li & Ning Yang

  2. College of Robotics, Beijing Union University, Beijing, 100101, China

    Aidong Chen & Na Huang

  3. Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100083, China

    Weifeng Liu

  4. Research Centre for Multi-intelligent Systems, Beijing, 100101, China

    Aidong Chen, Xiaoxiao Liu & Na Huang

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Li, X., Yang, N., Chen, A., Liu, W., Liu, X., Huang, N. (2022). Power Analysis Attack Based on Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network. In: Ahene, E., Li, F. (eds) Frontiers in Cyber Security. FCS 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1726. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8445-7_7

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