Construction of Side Channel Attack Resistant S-Boxes Using Genetic Algorithms Based on Coordinate Functions

Khadem, B.; Rajavzadeh, S.

doi:10.22061/jecei.2021.7801.436

Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

B. Khadem ¹
S. Rajavzadeh ²

¹ Faculty of Computer Engineering, Imam Hussein Comprehensive University, Tehran, Iran

² Faculty of Mathematics, Payam-e-Noor University (PNU) Graduate Center, Tehran, Iran

https://doi.org/10.22061/jecei.2021.7801.436

Abstract

Background and Objectives: Substitution-box (S-Box) is one of the essential components creating confusion and nonlinear properties in cryptography. To strengthen a cipher against various attacks, including side channel attacks, these boxes need to have numerous security properties. In this paper, a novel S-Box construction method is introduced aimed at improving the resistance of S-Boxes against power analysis attacks.
Methods: In the preprocessing phase of this approach, a suitable initial S-Box with some basic security properties was generated by adopting a fast algorithm. Then, in the main stage, using the initial S-Box, we generate new S-Boxes which not only have the properties of the initial S-Box but also have significantly improved under another set of security properties. To do this, new S-Boxes were generated using a genetic algorithm on a particular subset of the linear combination set of coordinate functions of the initial S-Box.
Results: The performed experiments demonstrated that the values of all security properties of these new S-Boxes, especially the measures of transparency order, signal-to-noise ratio, confusion coefficient, bijection property, fixed point, and opposite fixed points, have been substantially improved. For example, our experiments indicate that 70, 220, 2071, 43, and 406 S-Boxes are found better than the initial S-Box, respectively, in the dimensions of 4×4 through 8×8
Conclusion: In this paper, a new S-Box construction method is introduced where the properties related to side channel attacks are improved, without destroying other security features. Besides, some results obtained from generated S-Boxes in the dimensions of 4×4 through 8×8 demonstrated that the generated S-Boxes are not only improved relative to the initial S-Box, but also in certain cases, considerably better than some well-known S-Boxes.

Keywords

20.1001.1.23223952.2022.10.1.12.5

Main Subjects

Cryptography

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