Examining the practical side channel resilience of arx-boxes

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Abstract

Implementations of ARX ciphers are hoped to have some intrinsic side channel resilience owing to the specific choice of cipher components: Modular addition (A), rotation (R) and exclusive-or (X). Previous work has contributed to this understanding by developing theory regarding the side channel resilience of components (pioneered by the early works of Prouff) as well as some more recent practical investigations by Biryukov et al. that focused on lightweight cipher constructions. We add to this work by specifically studying ARX-boxes both mathematically as well as practically. Our results show that previous works' reliance on the simplistic assumption that intermediates independently leak (their Hamming weight) has led to the incorrect conclusion that the modular addition is necessarily the best target and that ARX constructions are therefore harder to attack in practice: We show that on an ARM M0, the best practical target is the exclusive or and attacks succeed with only tens of traces.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2019, CF 2019 - Proceedings
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages373-379
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781450366854
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Apr 2019
Event16th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2019 - Alghero, Sardinia, Italy
Duration: 30 Apr 20192 May 2019

Publication series

NameACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2019, CF 2019 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference16th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers, CF 2019
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityAlghero, Sardinia
Period30/04/192/05/19

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Association for Computing Machinery.

Keywords

  • ARX
  • Correlation Attack
  • Side Channel

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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