DPA Resistance Enhancement through a Self-healing PLL based Power Mask

Fleura Hajilou, Ehsan Mazidi, Shahab Ardalan

2015

Abstract

Attackers can benefit from different side-channel properties such as timing information, electromagnetic leaks and power consumption to achieve private key of a crypto-processor. Among side channel attacks, Differential Power Analysis (DPA) is widely used by hackers. In this paper a new approach is presented to make a system more immune to DPA. The proposed technique employs a low power Phase Locked Loop (PLL) to isolate supply voltage from crypto processor. The proposed method is implemented in 45nm CMOS technology.

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in Harvard Style

Hajilou F., Mazidi E. and Ardalan S. (2015). DPA Resistance Enhancement through a Self-healing PLL based Power Mask . In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2015) ISBN 978-989-758-117-5, pages 267-272. DOI: 10.5220/0005547302670272


in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt15,
author={Fleura Hajilou and Ehsan Mazidi and Shahab Ardalan},
title={DPA Resistance Enhancement through a Self-healing PLL based Power Mask},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2015)},
year={2015},
pages={267-272},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005547302670272},
isbn={978-989-758-117-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2015)
TI - DPA Resistance Enhancement through a Self-healing PLL based Power Mask
SN - 978-989-758-117-5
AU - Hajilou F.
AU - Mazidi E.
AU - Ardalan S.
PY - 2015
SP - 267
EP - 272
DO - 10.5220/0005547302670272