Sensors (Oct 2022)

A Comprehensive Survey on the Non-Invasive Passive Side-Channel Analysis

  • Petr Socha,
  • Vojtěch Miškovský,
  • Martin Novotný

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/s22218096
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 22, no. 21
p. 8096

Abstract

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Side-channel analysis has become a widely recognized threat to the security of cryptographic implementations. Different side-channel attacks, as well as countermeasures, have been proposed in the literature. Such attacks pose a severe threat to both hardware and software cryptographic implementations, especially in the IoT environment where the attacker may easily gain physical access to a device, leaving it vulnerable to tampering. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive survey regarding the non-invasive passive side-channel analysis. We describe both non-profiled and profiled attacks, related security metrics, countermeasures against such attacks, and leakage-assessment methodologies, as available in the literature of more than twenty years of research.

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