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Practical template-algebraic side channel attacks with extremely low data complexity

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HASP '13: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2487726.2487733

Published: 23 June 2013 Publication History

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Template-based Tolerant Algebraic Side Channel Attacks (Template-TASCA) were suggested in [20] as a way of reducing the high data complexity of template attacks by coupling them with algebraic side-channel attacks. In contrast to the maximum-likelihood method used in a standard template attack, the template-algebraic attack method uses a constraint solver to find the optimal state correlated to the measured side-channel leakage. In this work we present the first application of the template-algebraic key recovery attack to a publicly available data set (IAIK WS2). We show how our attack can successfully recover the encryption key even when the attacker has extremely limited access to the device under test -- only 200 traces in the offline phase and as little as a single trace in the online phase.

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Ma CChandy J(2018)Error Tolerant ASCA on FPGACloud Computing and Security10.1007/978-3-030-00012-7_51(563-572)Online publication date: 13-Sep-2018
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Practical template-algebraic side channel attacks with extremely low data complexity
1. Security and privacy
  1. Systems security
    1. Operating systems security

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