A novel masking scheme for SM3 based MAC

Author

Kaige Qu ; Wang An ; Liji Wu ; Yanting Ren ; Xiangmin Zhang

Author_Institution

Tsinghua Nat. Lab. for Inf. Sci. & Technol. (TNList), Tsinghua Univ., Beijing, China

Volume

12

Issue

6

fYear

2015

fDate

6/1/2015 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

21

Abstract

The Chinese hash algorithm SM3 is verified to be secure enough, but improper hardware implementation may lead to leakage. A masking scheme for SM3 algorithm is proposed to ensure the security of SM3 based Message Authentication Code (MAC). Our scheme was implemented in hardware, which utilizes hardware oriented secure conversion techniques between boolean and arithmetic masking. Security evaluation based on SAKURA- G FPGA board has been done with 2000 power traces from 2000 random plaintexts with random plaintext masks and random key masks. It has been verified that the masked SM3 hardware implementation shows no intermediate value leakage as expected. Our masked SM3 hardware can resist first-order correlation power attack (CPA) and collision correlation attack.

Keywords

Boolean functions; cryptography; field programmable gate arrays; message authentication; Boolean masking; SAKURA-G FPGA board; SM3 Chinese hash algorithm; SM3 based MAC; SM3 based message authentication code; arithmetic masking; collision correlation attack; first-order CPA; first-order correlation power attack; hardware oriented secure conversion techniques; power traces; random key masks; random plaintext masks; Algorithm design and analysis; Cryptography; Hardware; Software; Software algorithms; Standards; SM3 algorithm; masking scheme;hardware implementation; power analysis;boolean and arithmetic masking conversion;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications, China

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1673-5447

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/CC.2015.7122475

Filename

7122475