SymmetriC CiphEr design with inherent phySical Security (SuCCESS)

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Gregor Leander; Professor Dr. Amir Moradi
• Subject Area: Security and Dependability, Operating-, Communication- and Distributed Systems ; Theoretical Computer Science
• Term: from 2018 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 406956718

Our goal is to consider countermeasures against a variety of physical attacks during the design process of symmetric ciphers such that they do not forestall the performance optimizations. Particularly in the design of new cryptographic primitives we will consider protection against side-channel analysis and fault-injection attacks. We will develop novel countermeasures dedicated to our constructed primitives in such a way that the integration of such countermeasures into the corresponding implementations becomes straightforward and efficient. From the efficiency point of view, we will consider area, latency, energy consumption, and required randomness as the most important metrics. This will avoid the problem of classical design process, where equipping the implementation with countermeasures against physical attacks leads to significantly inefficient designs.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants