International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 28 October 2013

Jean-Sebastien Coron
ePrint Report ePrint Report
We describe a new algorithm for masking look-up tables of block-ciphers at any order, as a countermeasure against side-channel attacks. Our technique is a generalization of the classical randomized table countermeasure against first-order attacks. We prove the security of our new algorithm against t-th order attacks in the usual Ishai-Sahai-Wagner model from Crypto 2003; we also improve the bound on the number of shares from n>=4t+1 to n>= 2t+1 for an adversary who can adaptively move its probes between successive executions.

Our algorithm has the same time complexity O(n^2) as the Rivain-Prouff algorithm for AES, and its extension by Carlet et al. to any look-up table. In practice for AES our algorithm is less efficient than Rivain-Prouff, which can take advantage of the special algebraic structure

of the AES Sbox; however for DES our algorithm performs slightly better.

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