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Workload Characterization of a Lightweight SSL Implementation Resistant to Side-Channel Attacks
Overview Ever-growing mobility and ubiquitous wireless Internet access raise the need for secure communication with devices that may be severely constrained in terms of processing power, memory capacity and network speed. This paper describes a lightweight implementation of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol with a focus on small code size and low memory usage. The paper integrated a generic public-key crypto library into this SSL stack to support elliptic curve cryptography over arbitrary prime and binary fields. Furthermore, the paper aimed to secure the SSL handshake against side-channel attacks (in particular simple power analysis) by eliminating all data-dependent or key-dependent branches and memory accesses from the arithmetic operations and compare the resulting performance with an unprotected implementation.
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media | File Format | |
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| Date Published | October 2008 | ||
| Format | White Papers | ||
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