Key-dependent side-channel cube attack on CRAFT

• Main Authors: Pang, Kok-An, Abdul Latip, Shekh Faisal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc 2021
• Online Access: http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/26130/2/KEY-DEPENDENT%20SIDE-CHANNEL%20CUBE%20ATTACK%20ON%20CRAFT.PDF; http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/26130/; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4218/etrij.2019-0539

CRAFT is a tweakable block cipher introduced in 2019 that aims to provide strong protection against differential fault analysis. In this paper, we show that CRAFT is vulnerable to side-channel cube attacks. We apply side-channel cube attacks to CRAFT with the Hamming weight leakage assumption. We found that the first half of the secret key can be recovered from the Hamming weight leakage after the first round. Next, using the recovered key bits, we continue our attack to recover the second half of the secret key. We show that the set of equations that are solvable varies depending on the value of the key bits. Our result shows that 99.90% of the key space can be fully recovered within a practical time.