Software Hardware Co-design for Side-Channel Analysis Platform on Security Chips

Side-channel analysis is becoming a major threat to the security chips of smart cards, including power analysis, electromagnetic analysis and fault injection. Based on software hardware co-design, we implemented a side-channel analysis platform covering CPA/DPA/TA/CA methods, which could effectively reveal the secret keys on security chips. Our work integrates power analysis, electromagnetic analysis and fault injection into single platform, which contains regular international cryptographic algorithm of AES/3DES/ RSA/ECC and China standard cryptographic algorithm of SM2/SM3/SM4. And a novel UML model for software implementation is proposed. Six smart card products with countermeasures have been analyzed on our platform, and all keys have been revealed successfully. Particularly, the key of a contactless smart card product was revealed by 350,000 power traces, and compared to the foreign report out of 1,000,000 power traces, we have about 65% increase on efficiency of revealing keys.