Print Email Facebook Twitter Guard-NoC Title Guard-NoC: A protection against side-channel attacks for MPSoCs Author Reinbrecht, Cezar (TU Delft Computer Engineering) Aljuffri, A.A.M. (TU Delft Computer Engineering) Hamdioui, S. (TU Delft Quantum & Computer Engineering) Taouil, M. (TU Delft Computer Engineering) Forlin, Bruno E. (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul) Sepulveda, Johanna (AirBus Defence and Space GmbH) Contributor O'Conner, L. (editor) Department Quantum & Computer Engineering Date 2020 Abstract Multi-Processor System-on-Chips (MPSoCs) are popular computational platforms for a wide variety of applications due to their energy efficiency and flexibility. Like many other platforms they are vulnerable to Side Channel Attacks (SCAs). In particular, Logical SCAs (LSCAs) are very powerful as sensitive information can be retrieved by simply observing system properties that depend on the victim's software execution on the MPSoC. Unfortunately, many of the current protection mechanisms are either platform dependent or are effective only against a reduced set of attacks. In this work, we present Guard-NoC, a secure Network-on-Chip (NoC) architecture able to protect MPSoCs against a wide variety of LSCAs. The secure NoC employs three application-independent strategies to hide and isolate sensitive information: i) blinding the execution time of operations; ii) masking the execution time of operations; and iii) dual communication strategy (i.e., use packet and circuit switching simultaneously). Our results show that our secure NoC is resilient against practical LSCAs and leaks almost no information while having a minimal area and power overhead. Subject CountermeasureHardware SecurityNetwork-on-ChipSide Channel Attack To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ce17b640-7ba1-40f3-b328-b3994493ab9f DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI49217.2020.000-1 Publisher IEEE, Pisacataway ISBN 978-1-7281-5776-4 Source 2020 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI): Proceedings Event 19th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2020, 2020-07-06 → 2020-07-08, Limassol, Cyprus Series 2020 IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON VLSI (ISVLSI 2020), 2159-3469 Bibliographical note Accepted author manuscript Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2020 Cezar Reinbrecht, A.A.M. Aljuffri, S. Hamdioui, M. Taouil, Bruno E. Forlin, Johanna Sepulveda Files PDF Guard_NoC_accepted_author ... script.pdf 689.31 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:ce17b640-7ba1-40f3-b328-b3994493ab9f/datastream/OBJ/view