Title :
Quantitative evaluation of side-channel security for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
Author :
Li, Huiyun ; Chen, Tingding ; Wu, Keke ; Yu, Fengqi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Integrated Electron., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
Side-channel security has aroused widespread attentions since the first publication of power analysis attack. Enormous research efforts were dedicated to new countermeasures against side-channel attacks. However, there have been very few reports about how to quantitatively verify the effectiveness. This paper presents statistical approaches of quantitative evaluation for Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems. The significance test over the difference of mean measures the distinguishability of the secret key in scalar multiplication. Experiment results demonstrate that the proposed evaluation approaches are accurate and feasible.
Keywords :
public key cryptography; statistical distributions; telecommunication channels; telecommunication security; elliptic curve cryptosystem; power analysis attack; scalar multiplication; secret key; security quantitative evaluation; side-channel security; statistical distribution; Electronic countermeasures; Elliptic curve cryptography; Elliptic curves; Energy consumption; Equations; Information security; Performance analysis; Performance evaluation; Testing; Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems; Side-channel; quantitative; security evaluation;
Conference_Titel :
Anti-counterfeiting, Security, and Identification in Communication, 2009. ASID 2009. 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Hong Kong
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3883-9
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-3884-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICASID.2009.5276923
