Securing Memory Encryption and Authentication Against Side-Channel Attacks Using Unprotected Primitives

Thomas Unterluggauer, Mario Werner, Stefan Mangard

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Abstract

Memory encryption is used in many devices to protect memory content from attackers with physical access to a device. However, many current memory encryption schemes can be broken using Differential Power Analysis (DPA). In this work, we present Meas—the first Memory Encryption and Authentication Scheme providing security against DPA attacks. The scheme combines ideas from fresh re-keying and authentication trees by storing encryption keys in a tree structure to thwart first-order DPA without the need for DPA-protected cryptographic primitives. Therefore, the design strictly limits the use of every key to encrypt at most two different plaintext values. Meas prevents higher-order DPA without changes to the cipher implementation by using masking of the plaintext values. Meas is applicable to all kinds of memory, e.g., NVM and RAM, and has memory overhead comparable to existing memory authentication techniques without DPA protection, e.g., 7.3% for a block size fitting standard disk sectors.
Originalspracheenglisch
TitelACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security - ASIACCS'17
Herausgeber (Verlag)Association of Computing Machinery
Seiten690-702
DOIs
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2017
Veranstaltung2017 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security: ASIACCS 2017 - Abu Dhabi, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Dauer: 2 Apr. 20176 Apr. 2017

Konferenz

Konferenz2017 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
KurztitelASIACCS 2017
Land/GebietVereinigte Arabische Emirate
OrtAbu Dhabi
Zeitraum2/04/176/04/17

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