Visible to the public Testing and Reliability Enhancement of Security Primitives

TitleTesting and Reliability Enhancement of Security Primitives
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsHasan Anik, Toufiq, Danger, Jean-Luc, Diankha, Omar, Ebrahimabadi, Mohammad, Frisch, Christoph, Guilley, Sylvain, Karimi, Naghmeh, Pehl, Michael, Takarabt, Sofiane
Conference Name2021 IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems (DFT)
KeywordsAging, Damage Assessment, Digital Sensor, Entropy, FIA, Hardware, Layout, physical unclonable function, pubcrawl, PUF, Random variables, Resiliency, SCA, test, trng, Very large scale integration
AbstractThe test of security primitives is particularly strategic as any bias coming from the implementation or environment can wreck havoc on the security it is intended to provide. This paper presents how some security properties are tested on leading primitives: True Random Number Generation (TRNG), Physically Unclonable Function (PUF), cryptographic primitives and Digital Sensor (DS). The test of TRNG and PUF to ensure a high level of security is mainly about the entropy assessment, which requires specific statistical tests. The security against side-channel analysis (SCA) of cryptographic primitives, like the substitution box in symmetric cryptography, is generally ensured by masking. But the hardware implementation of masking can be damaged by glitches, which create leakages on sensitive variables. A test method is to search for nets of the cryptographic netlist, which are vulnerable to glitches. The DS is an efficient primitive to detect disturbances and rise alarms in case of fault injection attack (FIA). The dimensioning of this primitive requires a precise test to take into account the environment variations including the aging.
DOI10.1109/DFT52944.2021.9568297
Citation Keyhasan_anik_testing_2021