International Association for Cryptologic Research

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IACR News item: 13 May 2014

Guangjun Fan, Yongbin Zhou, Hailong Zhang, and Dengguo Feng
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Template Attacks are widely accepted to be the most powerful side-channel attacks from an information theoretic point of view. For classical Template Attacks, several papers suggested that one should not choose more than one point as the interesting point per clock cycle when he conducts Template Attacks. Disobeying this constraint leads to poorer classification performance even if a higher number of interesting points is chosen. A more systematic approach, which relies on the data variability, is to choose the interesting points based on principal component analysis (PCA). In this paper, we present a new way of conducting Template Attacks when one uses more than one point as the interesting point per clock cycle. This new way has better classification performance compared with classical Template Attacks and PCA-based Template Attacks. Moreover, the computational price of the new way is low and practical. Therefore, we suggest that one should use this new way to better understand practical threats of Template Attacks when one want to use more than one point as the interesting point per clock cycle.

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