CryptoDB
Annelie Heuser
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Publications
Year
Venue
Title
2019
TCHES
The Curse of Class Imbalance and Conflicting Metrics with Machine Learning for Side-channel Evaluations
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Abstract
We concentrate on machine learning techniques used for profiled sidechannel analysis in the presence of imbalanced data. Such scenarios are realistic and often occurring, for instance in the Hamming weight or Hamming distance leakage models. In order to deal with the imbalanced data, we use various balancing techniques and we show that most of them help in mounting successful attacks when the data is highly imbalanced. Especially, the results with the SMOTE technique are encouraging, since we observe some scenarios where it reduces the number of necessary measurements more than 8 times. Next, we provide extensive results on comparison of machine learning and side-channel metrics, where we show that machine learning metrics (and especially accuracy as the most often used one) can be extremely deceptive. This finding opens a need to revisit the previous works and their results in order to properly assess the performance of machine learning in side-channel analysis.
2019
TCHES
Make Some Noise. Unleashing the Power of Convolutional Neural Networks for Profiled Side-channel Analysis
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Abstract
Profiled side-channel analysis based on deep learning, and more precisely Convolutional Neural Networks, is a paradigm showing significant potential. The results, although scarce for now, suggest that such techniques are even able to break cryptographic implementations protected with countermeasures. In this paper, we start by proposing a new Convolutional Neural Network instance able to reach high performance for a number of considered datasets. We compare our neural network with the one designed for a particular dataset with masking countermeasure and we show that both are good designs but also that neither can be considered as a superior to the other one.Next, we address how the addition of artificial noise to the input signal can be actually beneficial to the performance of the neural network. Such noise addition is equivalent to the regularization term in the objective function. By using this technique, we are able to reduce the number of measurements needed to reveal the secret key by orders of magnitude for both neural networks. Our new convolutional neural network instance with added noise is able to break the implementation protected with the random delay countermeasure by using only 3 traces in the attack phase. To further strengthen our experimental results, we investigate the performance with a varying number of training samples, noise levels, and epochs. Our findings show that adding noise is beneficial throughout all training set sizes and epochs.
2016
ASIACRYPT
Program Committees
- CHES 2022
- Eurocrypt 2021
- CHES 2021
- CHES 2020
- CHES 2019
- CHES 2018
Coauthors
- Shivam Bhasin (2)
- Nicolas Bruneau (3)
- Sylvain Guilley (4)
- Alan Hanjalic (1)
- Annelie Heuser (6)
- Alan Jovic (1)
- Jaehun Kim (1)
- Damien Marion (1)
- Stjepan Picek (2)
- Francesco Regazzoni (1)
- Olivier Rioul (4)
- François-Xavier Standaert (1)
- Yannick Teglia (1)