Coupling Leakage in Theory and Practice - Unveiling (Post-PnR) Security Flaws in Masked FPGA-Mapped Designs

Coupling Leakage in Theory and Practice

With the widespread adoption of Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in security-critical industries such as defense and telecommunications, ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive data processed by these devices has become paramount. Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) poses a significant threat, necessitating the protect...

Area Efficiency in Constant-Cycle Schemes

This work proposes CCHPC1.1, an arbitrary-order masked gadget construction that improves Constant-Cycle Hardware Private Circuits (CCHPC) while preserving security in the Robust but Relaxed (RR) d-probing model and under the Probe- Isolating Non-Interference (PINI) composability notion.

Analysis of Countermeasures Techniques Against Side-Channel Attacks on Electronic Circuits: A Review

Side-channel attacks (SCAs) exploit unintended physical leakages in digital systems, such as power consumption, electromagnetic emissions, and execution time, to extract sensitive information, including cryptographic keys. This article presents a comprehensive comparative study of several families of countermeasures, i...

Design methodology of clock signal manipulation detectors in FPGAs and ASICs to strengthen vulnerable cryptosystems against fault injection

The growth of the secure Internet of Things has led, among other aspects, to the necessity of ensuring the confidentiality of sensitive user data while simultaneously adhering to stringent constraints regarding area and resource consumption. Attacks on physical implementations of cryptographic primitives are numerous a...

The SMAesH dataset Leakage of a Masked Hardware AES with Information-theoretic Security Bounds

A Secure Logic Locking Integration Technique for AES Algorithm

The globalization of semiconductor manufacturing has increased vulnerabilities such as hardware Trojan insertion, overbuilding, reverse engineering, and intellectual property piracy. Logic locking has emerged as an effective countermeasure to protect integrated circuits using secret key activation. The Advanced Encrypt...