GF(2m) finite-field multipliers with reduced activity variations

  • Authors:
  • Danuta Pamula;Arnaud Tisserand

  • Affiliations:
  • IRISA, CNRS, INRIA, Univ. Rennes 1, Lannion, France, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland;IRISA, CNRS, INRIA, Univ. Rennes 1, Lannion, France

  • Venue:
  • WAIFI'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Arithmetic of Finite Fields
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Electrical activity variations in a circuit are one of the information leakage used in side channel attacks. In this work, we present $\textrm{GF}(2^m)$ multipliers with reduced activity variations for asymmetric cryptography. Useful activity of typical multiplication algorithms is evaluated. The results show strong shapes, which can be used as a small source of information leakage. We propose modified multiplication algorithms and multiplier architectures to reduce useful activity variations during an operation.