Journal on Communications ›› 2024, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (1): 141-151.doi: 10.11959/j.issn.1000-436x.2024019

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Impossible statistical fault analysis of the PRIDE lightweight cryptosystem

Wei LI1,2,3,4, Wenqian SUN1, Dawu GU2, Ailin ZHANG1, Yunhua WEN1   

  1. 1 School of Computer Science and Technology, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620, China
    2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China
    3 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Scalable Computing and System, Shanghai 200240, China
    4 Shanghai Key Laboratory of Integrate Administration Technologies for Information Security, Shanghai 200240, China
  • Revised:2023-12-08 Online:2024-01-01 Published:2024-01-01
  • Supported by:
    The National Natural Science Foundation of China(61772129);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(62172395);The National Natural Science Foundation of China(62102077);The National Cryptography Development Fund(MMJJ20180101);State Key Laboratory of Information Security(2021-MS-05);Shanghai Sailing Plan(21YF1401200);Shanghai Sailing Plan(23YF1401000);The Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(223202D-25)

Abstract:

To analyze the implementation security of the PRIDE lightweight cryptosystem proposed at CRYPTO in 2014, a novel method of impossible statistical fault analysis on the ciphertext-only attack assumption was proposed.Furthermore, new distinguishers were designed, such as the Chi-square goodness-of-fit test-Hamming weight, and Chi-square goodness-of-fit test-maximum likelihood estimation.The proposed method had a random nibble-oriented fault model, and combined the statistical distribution states with the impossible relationship.On the difference among the intermediate states before and after the fault injections, at least 432 faults were required to recover the 128 bit secret key of PRIDE with a reliability of at least 99%.The experimental analysis demonstrates that the proposed method can not only reduce injected faults and latency, but also increase the accuracy.The results provide a vital reference for exploring the implementation security of lightweight cryptosystems.

Key words: side-channel analysis, impossible statistical fault analysis, lightweight cryptosystem, PRIDE, intelligent unmanned system

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