SCARD News

• May 31st, 2006

  The SCARD project has finished successfully!

• April 19th, 2006

  The SCARD-Workshop on June 16th 2006 is organised by Louvain-la-Neuve. The program is available at: SCARD workshop June 16th 2006.

• September 9th, 2005

  The SCARD researchers Stefan Mangard, Norbert Pramstaller and Elisabeth Oswald were awarded the "Best Paper Award" of CHES 2005 for their paper titled Successfully Attacking Masked AES Hardware Implementations. Congratulations from the rest of the SCARD consortium.

• July 25th, 2005

  SCARD researchers have been active since the last update participating in a number of conferences and writing publications. Lists of the most recent publication and conferences can be seen below. Please visit the publications page for a complete list of publications by the SCARD consortium.

  The testboards designed by URM1 were delivered in June and the first verified results from IAIK and KULRD are expected at the end of July 2005.

  Publications

  • A.Trifiletti, G. Scotti,M. Olivieri, R. Menicocci S. Mangard, M. Aigner; "A novel CMOS logic style with data independent power consumption", Poster presentation at ISCAS 2005, IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 23rd - 27th May 2005, Kobe in Japan.
  • T. Popp, S. Mangard "Masked Dual-Rail Pre-Charge Logic: DPA-Resistance without Routing Constraints", Proceedings of the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) 2005, August 29 - September 1, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer Verlag, 2005
  • S. Mangard, N. Pramstaller, and E. Oswald, "Successfully Attacking Masked AES Hardware Implementations", Proceedings of the Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems 2005 (CHES 2005, August 29 - September 1, 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer Verlag, 2005
  • L. Batina, N. Mentes, I. Verbauwhede. Side-Channel Issues for Designing Secure Hardware Implementations. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven-Hoverlee, Belgium, IOLTS
  • E. De Mulder, P Buysschaert, S.B Örs, P. Delmotte, B. Preleel, G. Vandenbosch, I. Verbauwhede. Electromagnetic Analysis Attack on a FPGA Implementation of an Elliptic Curve Cryptosystem. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium. (January 2005).

  Conferences and meetings

  • KULRD represented SCARD at a COSIC and IMEC seminar in spring.
  • URM1 presented SCARD at the annual meeting of Gruppo Electronica.
  • TUBITAK presented a paper on power analysis of memory structures at ABG 2005.
  • IAIK and IFX attended the Cryptographers track at RSA 2005.
  • TUBITAK attended "Design, Automation and Test in Europe - DATE'05" in March.
  • URM1 attended "International Symposium on Circuit and Systems; ISCAS 2005".

• Feb 22nd, 2005

  The SCARD review meeting took place in Brussels, present were representatives from Technikon, Infineon, IAIK, TUBITAK and URM1. The reviewers conclusions were: "SCARD is a small project, well focused, well organized and managed and working well together. The number of scientific publications is appreciated as well as the development of a simulation environment."

• Jan 17th-18th, 2005

  The SCARD Chip Specification Meeting, organised by Infineon Technologies, was held in Munich. Following topics have been discussed: Side-Channel Attack (measurement methodologies), DPA Simulation, Masked CMOS, Dual Rail, Scard Chip, Peripherals, Design methodologies, Work-Sharing and Project planning.

• Nov 29th-30th, 2004

  The project meeting, organised by URM1, was held as planned in Rome with a technical meeting the day after. Among the topics discussed were the upcoming reports and the advances made in both logic styles and SCA techniques.

• Sep 30th, 2004

  The tape-out for the test chip took place today. The first samples should be available for testing just before christmas.

• Sep 13th, 2004

  A paper with the title of "Why the Masking of CMOS Gates Does Not Prevent DPA Attacks" by Stefan Mangard, IAIK; Thomas Popp, IAIK and Berndt Gammel, IFX, has been accepted for publication at RSA Conference 2005, Cryptographers' Track. The conference takes place February 14-18, 2005 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA.

• Aug 23rd-26th, 2004

  Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater, member of the SCARD project was awarded the Kristian Beckman Award. The award ceremony took place at SEC 2004. More information and the jurys motivation is available on the IFIP TC11 homepage.

• Aug 11th-13th, 2004

  CHES 2004 in Boston, USA was attended by members of IAIK and UCL. Professor Jean-Jacques Quisquater, responsible for UCL's contributions to SCARD, was one of the committee members. Several papers, with potential impact on SCARD were presented and will be used by the consortium members to ensure that the outcome represents state of the art technologies.

SCARD FAQ

• What is SCARD?

  SCARD is an FP6 (6th Framework Program of the European Comission) sponsored research project (STREP).

• Who belongs to the SCARD Consortium?

  The SCARD consortium consists of the european leading research teams in the topic of side channel analysis (SCA) of cryptographic hardware and development of countermeasures against SCA related attacks.

• What is the goal of SCARD?

  The goal of SCARD is to develop countermeasures against SCA and integrate the countermeasures into a standard design flow for digital crypto hardware.

• What is the volume of SCARD?

  The project is done by 9 individual partners. The overall workload is about 450 person month.