FOBOS 3: An Open-Source Platform for Side-Channel Analysis and Benchmarking
Eduardo Ferrufino, Luke Beckwith, Abubakr Abdulgadir, Jens-Peter Kaps · 2023
The lightweight cryptography (LWC) standardization process by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the US is the latest example of competitions that require benchmarking and side-channel leakage evaluation of hardware implementations of a multitude of candidate algorithms. A common hardware application programming interface (API) streamlines the development of a test harness. However, no existing platform is directly compatible with the LWC algorithms' hardware interface. Hence, a significant effort is needed to evaluate and benchmark a large number of candidates.