Recent work on Differential Power Analysis shows that even mathematically-secure cryptographic protocols may be vulnerable at the physical implementation level. By measuring energy consumed by a working digital circuit, one can glean enough information to break encryption. Thwarting such attacks requires a new approach to logic and physical design. In this work, we seek to equalize switching activity of a circuit over all possible inputs and input transitions by adding redundant gates and increasing the overall number of signal transitions. We introduce uniformly-switching (U-S) logic, and present a doubling construction that equalizes power dissipation without requiring drastic changes in CAD tools.
Citation:
Igor L. Markov, Dmitri Maslov, "Uniformly-Switching Logic for Cryptographic Hardware," date, vol. 1, pp.432-433, Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'05) Volume 1, 2005