Side channel analysis on an embedded hardware fingerprint biometric comparator & low cost countermeasures

Taoufik Chouta; Tarik Graba; Jean Luc Danger; Julien Bringer; Maël Berthier; Yves Bocktaels; Mélanie Favre; Hervé Chabanne

doi:10.1145/2611765.2611771

Side channel analysis on an embedded hardware fingerprint biometric comparator & low cost countermeasures

Taoufik Chouta
, Tarik Graba
, Jean Luc Danger
, Julien Bringer
, Maël Berthier
, Yves Bocktaels
, Mélanie Favre
, Hervé Chabanne

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Abstract

Biometric identity verification is now commonly used in embedded electronic devices, from consumer products as smartphones to ID documents. As biometric traits are related to individual, the privacy of such personal information is important. Many of these embedded systems rely on an embedded comparison, like Match On Card (MOC) in smart cards, where the stored biometric trait is kept inside the device. In this paper, we extend further a recent work on the vulnerability analysis of an embedded hardware verification module (matcher) against Side Channel Analysis (SCA) techniques, by introducing a new SCA strategy. We present the used SCA approach to exploit the activity leakage of this embedded matcher to retrieve the stored trait. Then we present some simple countermeasures to protect against SCA and we give an evaluation of their performances both in term of security and complexity.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, HASP 2014
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450327770
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2611765.2611771
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, HASP 2014 - Minneapolis, United States Duration: 15 Jun 2014 → …

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	15-June-2014

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Conference	3rd International Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, HASP 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Minneapolis
Period	15/06/14 → …

Keywords

Biometric tampering
Embedded biometric comparison
Side channel analysis

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Chouta, T., Graba, T., Danger, J. L., Bringer, J., Berthier, M., Bocktaels, Y., Favre, M., & Chabanne, H. (2014). Side channel analysis on an embedded hardware fingerprint biometric comparator & low cost countermeasures. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, HASP 2014 Article a6 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 15-June-2014). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2611765.2611771

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Side channel analysis on an embedded hardware fingerprint biometric comparator & low cost countermeasures. / Chouta, Taoufik; Graba, Tarik; Danger, Jean Luc et al.
Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, HASP 2014. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. a6 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 15-June-2014).

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Chouta T, Graba T, Danger JL, Bringer J, Berthier M, Bocktaels Y et al. Side channel analysis on an embedded hardware fingerprint biometric comparator & low cost countermeasures. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Hardware and Architectural Support for Security and Privacy, HASP 2014. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. a6. (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series). doi: 10.1145/2611765.2611771

Side channel analysis on an embedded hardware fingerprint biometric comparator & low cost countermeasures

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