On Comparing Side-channel Properties of AES and ChaCha20 on Microcontrollers

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On Comparing Side-channel Properties of AES and ChaCha20 on Microcontrollers

Conference Paper (2018)

Author(s)

Zakaria Najm (Nanyang Technological University, TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Dirmanto Jap (Nanyang Technological University)

Bernhard Jungk (Independent researcher)

Stjepan Picek (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science)

Shivam Bhasin (Nanyang Technological University)

Research Group

Cyber Security

Machine learning Cryptography Automotive Side-Channel Attack

DOI related publication

https://doi.org/10.1109/APCCAS.2018.8605653 Final published version

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Publication Year

2018

Language

English

Research Group

Cyber Security

Pages (from-to)

552-555

ISBN (print)

978-1-5386-8241-8

ISBN (electronic)

978-1-5386-8240-1

Event

APCCAS 2018 (2018-10-26 - 2018-10-30), Chengdu, China

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Abstract

Side-channel attacks are a real threat to many secure systems. In this paper, we consider two ciphers used in the automotive industry – AES and ChaCha20 and we evaluate their resistance against side-channel attacks. In particular, the focus is laid upon the main non-linear component in these ciphers. Owing to the design of ChaCha20, it offers natural timing side-channel resistance and thus is suitable for affected applications. However, attacks exploiting the power side-channel are somewhat more difficult on ChaCha20 as compared to AES, but the overhead to protect ChaCha20 against such attack is considerably higher.