A Novel Algebraic Approach to Power Analysis Attack-Resistant Countermeasure for Koblitz Curve Cryptosystems in Mobile Devices

Author

Kasiri, Behzad ; Shahhoseini, Hadi Sahriar ; Meshgi, Hadi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Iran Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Tehran

Volume

2

fYear

2008

fDate

17-20 Feb. 2008

Firstpage

1020

Lastpage

1023

Abstract

Recently, elliptic curve cryptosystems have become more and more fashionable, and researchers have focused on power analysis attacks particularly on elliptic curves, type of side channel attacks that exploit leakage information from the device. This paper proposes a countermeasure which improves performance and resistance against recent power analysis attacks such as RPA and ZPA in addition to SPA and new DPA attacks, with stressing on special class of elliptic curves, namely, Koblitz curves because of their advantages in processing time.

Keywords

cryptography; mobile handsets; telecommunication security; Koblitz curve cryptosystems; differential power analysis; elliptic curve cryptosystems; mobile devices; novel algebraic approach; power analysis attack-resistant countermeasure; Electronic countermeasures; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Equations; Information analysis; Interleaved codes; Performance analysis; Public key cryptography; Timing; Wireless communication; Elliptic curve cryptosystem (ECC); Koblitz curve; Power analysis attack; countermeasure; interleaving;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Communication Technology, 2008. ICACT 2008. 10th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Gangwon-Do

ISSN

1738-9445

Print_ISBN

978-89-5519-136-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICACT.2008.4493939

Filename

4493939