Random Dynamic Voltage Scaling Design to Enhance Security of NCL S-Box

Abstract

The demand for enhanced security in cryptographic systems is increasing rapidly in recent years with the development of mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets. One of the most popular cryptographic devices that are used in these security sensitive devices is the smart card, which provides the security identification and authentication for those applications. To secure these cryptographic devices from various attacks has grown to become an attractive research topics. While recent advancements in public-key cryptographic algorithms try to eliminate or reduce the theoretical weaknesses to resist attacks, an alternative way to obtain the information of secret keys is from the physical implementation of the crypto-hardware. In this work, a random dynamic voltage scaling (RDVS) design has been proposed and implemented into an AES S-Box which is designed using asynchronous delay-insensitive logic referred to as Null convention logic (NCL). NCL utilizes symbolic completeness of expression to achieve self-timed behavior. It has been demonstrated that NCL contains all the properties to resist common forms of side-channel attack (SCA). RDVS is designed to enhance the resistance against SCA in the way of randomly changing the supply voltage so that "random noise" can be injected into the power traces to make the SCA more difficult to attack.

Meeting Name

IEEE 54th International Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems: MWSCAS (2011: Aug. 7-10, Seoul, South Korea)

Department(s)

Electrical and Computer Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Cryptographic Algorithms; Cryptographic Devices; Cryptographic Systems; Null Convention Logic; Power Traces; Public Keys; Random Dynamics; Random Noise; Research Topics; Secret Key; Self-Timed; Sensitive Devices; Side-Channel Attacks; Smart Phones; Supply Voltages; Various Attacks; Cellular Telephone Systems; Mobile Devices; Smart Cards; Voltage Stabilizing Circuits, Cryptography

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-1612848570; 978-1612848563

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

1548-3746; 1558-3899

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2011 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Aug 2011

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