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SNOW-SCA: ML-Assisted Side-Channel Attack on SNOW-V

Saurabh, H and Golder, A and Titti, SS and Kundu, S and Li, C and Karmakar, A and Das, D (2024) SNOW-SCA: ML-Assisted Side-Channel Attack on SNOW-V. In: IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2024, 6 May 2024 through 9 May 2024, pp. 139-149.

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/HOST55342.2024.10545384

Abstract

This paper presents SNOW-SCA, the first power side-channel analysis (SCA) attack of a 5G mobile communication security standard candidate, SNOW-V, running on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller. First, we perform a generic known-key correlation (KKC) analysis to identify the leakage points. Next, a correlation power analysis (CPA) attack is performed, which reduces the attack complexity to two key guesses for each key byte. The correct secret key is then uniquely identified utilizing linear discriminant analysis (LDA). The profiled SCA attack with LDA achieves 100 accuracy after training with < 200 traces, which means the attack succeeds with just a single trace. Overall, using the combined CPA and LDA attack model, the correct secret key byte is recovered with < 50 traces collected using the ChipWhisperer platform. The entire 256-bit secret key of SNOW-V can be recovered incrementally using the proposed SCA attack. Finally, we suggest low-overhead countermeasures that can be used to prevent these SCA attacks. © 2024 IEEE.

Item Type: Conference Paper
Publication: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Hardware Oriented Security and Trust, HOST 2024
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to the Authors.
Keywords: 5G mobile communication systems; Discriminant analysis; Shift registers; Snow, Correlation power attack; Countermeasure; Linear discriminant analyse; Linear discriminant analyze; Linear feedback shift register; Linear feedback shift registers; Power attacks; Side-channel analyse; Side-channel analysis; SNOW-V, Side channel attack
Department/Centre: Division of Electrical Sciences > Electronic Systems Engineering (Formerly Centre for Electronic Design & Technology)
Date Deposited: 31 Jul 2024 05:03
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2024 05:03
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/85668

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