An architectural countermeasure against power analysis attacks for FSR-Based stream ciphers

  • Authors:
  • Shohreh Sharif Mansouri;Elena Dubrova

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Electronic Systems, School of ICT, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden;Department of Electronic Systems, School of ICT, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  • Venue:
  • COSADE'12 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Constructive Side-Channel Analysis and Secure Design
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Feedback Shift Register (FSR) based stream ciphers are known to be vulnerable to power analysis attacks due to their simple hardware structure. In this paper, we propose a countermeasure against non-invasive power analysis attacks based on switching activity masking. Our solution has a 50% smaller power overhead on average compared to the previous standard cell-based countermeasures. Its resistance against different types of attacks is evaluated on the example of Grain-80 stream cipher.