Design and analysis of secure emerging crypto-hardware using HyperFET devices

The emergence of new devices to be used in low-power applications are expected to reach impressive performance compared to those obtained by equivalent CMOS counterparts. However, when used in lightweight security applications, these emerging paradigms are required to be reliable and safe enough dur...

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Autores: Delgado-Lozano, Ignacio M., Tena-Sánchez, Erica, Núñez, Juan, Acosta, Antonio J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/411674
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/411674
https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85107495920
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Dual precharge logic (DPL)
Emerging technologies
FinFET
HyperFET
Information security
Low-power
Sense amplifier based logic (SABL)
Side-channel attacks (SCAs)
Substitution box (Sbox)
VLSI design of cryptographic circuits
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Sumario:The emergence of new devices to be used in low-power applications are expected to reach impressive performance compared to those obtained by equivalent CMOS counterparts. However, when used in lightweight security applications, these emerging paradigms are required to be reliable and safe enough during the task of protecting important and valuable data. In this work, the usage of HyperFET devices for security applications has been analyzed and new paradigms for enhancing security against Power Analysis attacks have been developed for the first time. To perform this analysis, classical dual-precharge logic primitives implemented with 14nm FinFET have been upgraded to incorporate HyperFET devices. The proposed primitives incorporating HyperFETs, as well as a 4-bit Substitution box of PRIDE algorithm as demonstrative example, have been designed and simulated using predictive models. Simulation-based Differential Power Analysis attacks demonstrate high improvements in security levels in a x25 factor at least, with negligible degradation in performance. This first approach could be easily extensible to other ciphers or crypto-circuits, where the incorporation of HyperFET devices will enhance security for most future applications.