Side-Channel Analysis Attacks on Hardware Implementations of Cryptographic Algorithms
Nicolas Sklavos, Xinmiao Zhang · 2017
References.................................................................................................... 239 Traditionally, the main task of cryptographic hardware is the acceleration of operations frequently used in cryptosystems or the acceleration of a complete cryptographic algorithm. In applications, hardware devices are also required to store secret or private keys securely. Hence, a cryptographic device must prevent the extraction of any sensitive information. A side-channel analysis (SCA) attack takes advantage of implementation-specific characteristics to recover the secret parameters involved in the computation. It is therefore less general, but often more powerful than classical cryptanalysis.