DPA-Secured Quasi-Adiabatic Logic (SQAL) for Low-Power Passive RFID Tags Employing S-Boxes

Author

Avital, Moshe ; Dagan, Hadar ; Levi, Itamar ; Keren, Osnat ; Fish, Alexander

Author_Institution

Fac. of Eng., Bar-Ilan Univ., Ramat-Gan, Israel

Volume

62

Issue

1

fYear

2015

fDate

Jan. 2015

Firstpage

149

Lastpage

156

Abstract

Low-power mobile devices such as RFID tags and WSNs that employ AES cryptographic modules are susceptible to differential power analysis (DPA) attacks. This paper presents a novel secured quasi-adiabatic logic (SQAL) technology that is both low-power and DPA immune. The efficiency of the SQAL technology was evaluated on an 8-bit AES-128 SBOX block and proved to be robust against DPA attacks. Compared to other adiabatic and non-adiabatic logic styles, the SQAL technology achieves better results in terms of power consumption and area overhead.

Keywords

cryptography; radiofrequency identification; AES cryptographic modules; DPA-secured quasi-adiabatic logic; SQAL technology; differential power analysis attacks; low-power passive RFID tags; CMOS integrated circuits; Capacitance; Correlation; Discharges (electric); Logic gates; Security; Transistors; AES; Adiabatic logic; differential power analysis (DPA); passive RFID; secured quasi-adiabatic logic (SQAL);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1549-8328

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSI.2014.2359720

Filename

6998067