Presilicon evaluation on correlation power analysis attacks and countermeasures
B.M. Damian, Zoltan Hascsi, Alexandra Sandulescu · 2017
Side channel attacks can retrieve sensitive information from secured chips without any invasive procedures. Such a powerful attack is the Correlation Power Analysis (CPA), which makes use of the power traces to gain information regarding the processed data. This paper investigates its efficiency, having different FPGAs under test. The main characteristics of a suitable test environment are highlighted. Additionally, this paper proposes a countermeasure against this type of attack.