A First Step to Provable Security in Block Ciphers against Side Channel Attacks

Wei Li; Dawu Gu

2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China

Research Article

A First Step to Provable Security in Block Ciphers against Side Channel Attacks

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469414,
    author={Wei Li and Dawu Gu},
    title={A First Step to Provable Security in Block Ciphers against Side Channel Attacks},
    proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Communications and Networking in China},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={CHINACOM},
    year={2008},
    month={3},
    keywords={Art  Computer science  Computer security  Concrete  Cryptography  Educational programs  Information security  Privacy  Resists  Timing},
    doi={10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469414}
}

Wei Li
Dawu Gu
Year: 2008
A First Step to Provable Security in Block Ciphers against Side Channel Attacks
CHINACOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469414

Wei Li¹^,*, Dawu Gu¹^,*

1: Department of Computer Science and Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai 200240, China

*Contact email: liwei2003@sjtu.edu.cn, dwgu@sjtu.edu.cn

Abstract

Security notions for block ciphers have been defined in a concrete security framework. Yet, a cryptosystem against side channel attacks has no appropriate secure goals and adversary models for some reason currently. This paper presents some security notions for block ciphers against side channel attack. Based on these definitions, we establish the relationship between them by reduction on the success of adversaries as a function of their resources. It provides a general theoretical method for block ciphers against side channel attacks.

Keywords: Art Computer science Computer security Concrete Cryptography Educational programs Information security Privacy Resists Timing

Published: 2008-03-07
Publisher: IEEE
Modified: 2011-07-12

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CHINACOM.2007.4469414