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IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems, p. 557-589, 2022

DOI: 10.46586/tches.v2023.i1.557-589

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SoK: SCA-secure ECC in software – mission impossible?

Journal article published in 2022 by Lejla Batina, Łukasz Chmielewski, Björn Haase, Niels Samwel, Peter Schwabe
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Abstract

This paper describes an ECC implementation computing the X25519 keyexchange protocol on the Arm Cortex-M4 microcontroller. For providing protections against various side-channel and fault attacks we first review known attacks and countermeasures, then we provide software implementations that come with extensive mitigations, and finally we present a preliminary side-channel evaluation. To our best knowledge, this is the first public software claiming affordable protection against multiple classes of attacks that are motivated by distinct real-world application scenarios. We distinguish between X25519 with ephemeral keys and X25519 with static keys and show that the overhead to our baseline unprotected implementation is about 37% and 243%, respectively. While this might seem to be a high price to pay for security, we also show that even our (most protected) static implementation is at least as efficient as widely-deployed ECC cryptographic libraries, which offer much less protection.