This project seeks to advance the differential power analysis MQP of Hnath and Pettengill. Using their work as a foundation, we implement a power analysis attack on the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). We then evaluate our attack according to the criteria from the DPA Contest. In addition, we explore several strategies to improve the attack. Our attempts result in slight improvements in select cases. We also seek to attack AES using the differential template attack (DTA) of Karakoyunlu and Sunar. Although originally designed to attack physically unclonable functions, we show the DTA can be used against AES. We implement the DTA to attack AES and find it promising, but not entirely successful. We then present our theories on how to improve the DTA.

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Creator

• Tanenbaum, Jacob Brian
• Kevorkian, Christopher Michael

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-122211-215512

Advisor

• Sunar, Berk
• Martin, William J.

Year

• 2011

Sponsor

• General Dynamics C4 Systems

Date created

• 2011-12-22

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Interdisciplinary

Rights statement

• In Copyright