Journal of Xidian University ›› 2021, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (1): 14-21.doi: 10.19665/j.issn1001-2400.2021.01.003

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Progress of and some comments on the research of side-channel attack for cryptosystems

GU Dawu1,2(),ZHANG Chi1(),LU Xiangjun1()   

  1. 1. School of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240,China
    2. School of Cyber Engineering,Xidian University,Xi’an 710126,China
  • Received:2020-08-30 Online:2021-02-20 Published:2021-02-03

Abstract:

Side-channel attack is among the real threats to a cryptosystem in practice.By tracking its latest development,the main research directions including information pre-processing,non-profiled and profiled analysis are classified and demonstrated.The research key points of side-channel attack are summarized,in which the limitation of relying on artificial assumptions is pointed out to be as the principal issue of the state-of-the-art methods.Once the artificial assumptions deviate from the actual situation,the effect of side-channel attack will be seriously affected or weakened.A possible technical solution to ruling out this limitation is given,that is,to make use of what we call the zero-assumption (or weak assumption) method.The next-step research points under this assumption are listed briefly.

Key words: side-channel attack, information pre-processing, non-profiled analysis, profiled analysis, method without (with weak) assumptions

CLC Number: 

  • TN911.3