First-round and last-round power analysis attack against AES devices

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Septafiansyah Dwi Putra, Arwin Datumaya Wahyudi Sumari, Imam Asrowardi, Eko Subyantoro, Luqman Muhammad Zagi

2020 2020 International Conference on Information Technology Systems and Innovation, ICITSI 2020 - Proceedings Conference paper Cited by 3 Quartile

Abstract

Power analysis attacks are a known method of breaking cryptographic algorithms such as AES. The scenario is a first-round and last-round attack based on CPA and hamming distance, each of which provides candidates for 16 secret state key. This paper demonstrates a series of attacks on a secure AES microcontroller device, where the f rmware f les have been encrypted with AES128 EBC. A correlation power analysis (CPA) attack is performed on AES128 to recover the complete master key. The use of CPA attacks is carried out on the first-byte state at First- Round and Last-Round. The correlation coefficient for the entire state in AES in the first-round is 0.712 <<0.8455. Meanwhile, the coefficient value in the second test is 0.1724 <<0.2635. We can conclude the main vulnerability of the AES128 is in the power estimate value that is easy to guess after the SubBytes and INVSubbytes function in each round. © 2020 IEEE.

Affiliations

Management Informatics Politeknik Negeri Lampung, Lampung, Indonesia; Electrical Engineering Politeknik Negeri Malang, Malang, Indonesia; Insitut Teknologi Bandung, School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Bandung, Indonesia