International Association for Cryptologic Research

International Association
for Cryptologic Research

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Wei-Lun Huang

Publications

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2019
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Power Analysis on NTRU Prime 📺
Wei-Lun Huang Jiun-Peng Chen Bo-Yin Yang
This paper applies a variety of power analysis techniques to several implementations of NTRU Prime, a Round 2 submission to the NIST PQC Standardization Project. The techniques include vertical correlation power analysis, horizontal indepth correlation power analysis, online template attacks, and chosen-input simple power analysis. The implementations include the reference one, the one optimized using smladx, and three protected ones. Adversaries in this study can fully recover private keys with one single trace of short observation span, with few template traces from a fully controlled device similar to the target and no a priori power model, or sometimes even with the naked eye. The techniques target the constant-time generic polynomial multiplications in the product scanning method. Though in this work they focus on the decapsulation, they also work on the key generation and encapsulation of NTRU Prime. Moreover, they apply to the ideal-lattice-based cryptosystems where each private-key coefficient comes from a small set of possibilities.

Coauthors

Jiun-Peng Chen (1)
Bo-Yin Yang (1)