The security of cryptographic systems is a major concern for cryptosystem designers, even though cryptography algorithms have been improved. Side-channel attacks, by taking advantage of physical vulnerabilities of cry...The security of cryptographic systems is a major concern for cryptosystem designers, even though cryptography algorithms have been improved. Side-channel attacks, by taking advantage of physical vulnerabilities of cryptosystems, aim to gain secret information. Several approaches have been proposed to analyze side-channel information, among which machine learning is known as a promising method. Machine learning in terms of neural networks learns the signature （power consumption and electromagnetic emission） of an instruction, and then recognizes it automatically. In this paper, a novel experimental investigation was conducted on field-programmable gate array （FPGA） implementation of elliptic curve cryptography （ECC）, to explore the efficiency of side-channel information characterization based on a learning vector quantization （LVQ） neural network. The main characteristics of LVQ as a multi-class classifier are that it has the ability to learn complex non-linear input-output relationships, use sequential training procedures, and adapt to the data. Experimental results show the performance of multi-class classification based on LVQ as a powerful and promising approach of side-channel data characterization.展开更多
文摘The security of cryptographic systems is a major concern for cryptosystem designers, even though cryptography algorithms have been improved. Side-channel attacks, by taking advantage of physical vulnerabilities of cryptosystems, aim to gain secret information. Several approaches have been proposed to analyze side-channel information, among which machine learning is known as a promising method. Machine learning in terms of neural networks learns the signature （power consumption and electromagnetic emission） of an instruction, and then recognizes it automatically. In this paper, a novel experimental investigation was conducted on field-programmable gate array （FPGA） implementation of elliptic curve cryptography （ECC）, to explore the efficiency of side-channel information characterization based on a learning vector quantization （LVQ） neural network. The main characteristics of LVQ as a multi-class classifier are that it has the ability to learn complex non-linear input-output relationships, use sequential training procedures, and adapt to the data. Experimental results show the performance of multi-class classification based on LVQ as a powerful and promising approach of side-channel data characterization.
