Power analysis attack based on the MLP in DPA Contest v4

Author(s):  
Zdenek Martinasek ◽  
Ondrej Zapletal ◽  
Kamil Vrba ◽  
Krisztina Trasy
2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Fabšič ◽  
Ondrej Gallo ◽  
Viliam Hromada

Abstract It is known that a naive implementation of the decryption algorithm in the McEliece cryptosystem allows an attacker to recover the secret matrix P by measuring the power consumption. We demonstrate that a similar threat is present in the QC-LDPC variant of the McEliece cryptosystem. We consider a naive implementation of the decryption algorithm in the QC-LDPC McEliece cryptosystem. We demonstrate that this implementation leaks information about positions of ones in the secret matrix Q. We argue that this leakage allows an attacker to completely recover the matrix Q. In addition, we note that the quasi-cyclic nature of the matrix Q allows to accelerate the attack significantly.


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