Trace-driven cache attacks on AES (short paper)

  • Authors:
  • Onur Acıiçmez;Çetin Kaya Koç

  • Affiliations:
  • School of EECS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR;School of EECS, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

  • Venue:
  • ICICS'06 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Information and Communications Security
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Cache based side-channel attacks have recently been attracted significant attention due to the new developments in the field. In this paper, we present an efficient trace-driven cache attack on a widely used implementation of the AES cryptosystem. We also evaluate the cost of the proposed attack in detail under the assumption of a noiseless environment. We develop an accurate mathematical model that we use in the cost analysis of our attack. We use two different metrics, specifically, the expected number of necessary traces and the cost of the analysis phase, for the cost evaluation purposes. Each of these metrics represents the cost of a different phase of the attack.