A look into SIMON from a side-channel perspective

Shivam Bhasin; Tarik Graba; Jean Luc Danger; Zakaria Najm

doi:10.1109/HST.2014.6855568

A look into SIMON from a side-channel perspective

Shivam Bhasin
, Tarik Graba
, Jean Luc Danger
, Zakaria Najm

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Abstract

SIMON is a lightweight block cipher, specially designed for resource constrained devices that was recently presented by the National Security Agency (NSA). This paper deals with a hardware implementation of this algorithm from a side-channel point of view as it is a prime concern for embedded systems. We present the implementation of SIMON on a Xilinx Virtex-5 FPGA and propose a low-overhead countermeasure using first-order Boolean masking exploiting the simplistic construction of SIMON. Finally we evaluate the side-channel resistance of both implementations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	56-59
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781479941148
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/HST.2014.6855568
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Event	2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014 - Arlington, VA, United States Duration: 6 May 2014 → 7 May 2014

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Name	Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014

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Conference	2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Arlington, VA
Period	6/05/14 → 7/05/14

Keywords

Countermeasures
Lightweight Cryptography
SIMON
Side-Channel Analysis

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Bhasin, S., Graba, T., Danger, J. L., & Najm, Z. (2014). A look into SIMON from a side-channel perspective. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014 (pp. 56-59). Article 6855568 (Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/HST.2014.6855568

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Bhasin, S, Graba, T, Danger, JL & Najm, Z 2014, A look into SIMON from a side-channel perspective. in Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014., 6855568, Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 56-59, 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014, Arlington, VA, United States, 6/05/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/HST.2014.6855568

A look into SIMON from a side-channel perspective. / Bhasin, Shivam; Graba, Tarik; Danger, Jean Luc et al.
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014. IEEE Computer Society, 2014. p. 56-59 6855568 (Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014).

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Bhasin S, Graba T, Danger JL, Najm Z. A look into SIMON from a side-channel perspective. In Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014. IEEE Computer Society. 2014. p. 56-59. 6855568. (Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2014). doi: 10.1109/HST.2014.6855568

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