Title :
HDRL: Homogeneous Dual-Rail Logic for DPA Attack Resistive Secure Circuit Design
Author :
Tanimura, Kazuyuki ; Dutt, Nikil D.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
Differential power analysis (DPA) attacks find the correlation between power consumption and secret data in crypto-hardware. This letter proposes homogeneous dual-rail logic (HDRL), a standard cell DPA attack countermeasure that theoretically guarantees fully balanced power consumption and significantly improves DPA attack resistivity. Our experimental results on the AES S-Box circuit show that HDRL successfully prevents DPA attacks in all cases.
Keywords :
logic circuits; network synthesis; power electronics; DPA attack resistive secure circuit design; HDRL; crypto-hardware; differential power analysis; homogeneous dual-rail logic; power consumption; secret data; Conductivity; Cryptography; Current measurement; Delay; Immune system; Power demand; Switches; DPA; power analysis; side-channel attacks;
Journal_Title :
Embedded Systems Letters, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/LES.2012.2193115
