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Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 19, 2018
Applicant:

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, SG;

Inventors:

Kwen Siong Chong, Singapore, SG;

Bah Hwee Gwee, Singapore, SG;

Ali Akbar Pammu, Singapore, SG;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/72 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/75 (2013.01); G06F 21/62 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/72 (2013.01); G06F 21/55 (2013.01); G06F 21/6218 (2013.01); G06F 21/75 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and an apparatus for hardware security to countermeasure side-channel attacks are provided. The method or apparatus may introduce at least one redundant or partial redundant computation having a similar power dissipation profile or an electromagnetic emission profile when compared to that of a genuine operation for cryptographic devices, and/or to reorder the iterations of operations in a different sequence. The redundant or partial redundant computation may be performed by using a different password key and/or a different raw data (e.g., plaintext). The presence of the redundant or partial redundant computation would make side-channel attacks difficult in the sense that genuine or redundant/partial redundant operations are difficult to be clearly identified, hence serving as a countermeasure for hardware security.


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