<p dir="ltr">5G/4G voice calls are encrypted for the purpose of confidentiality, secrecy and privacy. Although protected by well-examined security measures we unveil several vulnerabilities previously unreported in the 5G/4G voice calls that unintentionally leak 5G/4G call state information despite encryption protection and device proof of concept attacks in this thesis. Unlike existing attacks, these new attacks are significantly more threatening because they are completely contactless without requiring any malware, access or compromise on the victim's phones, the 5G/4G network and the other call party. Instead, the attacker only needs to deploy a radio sniffer to eavesdrop on 5G/4G communication and infer confidential call information.</p><p dir="ltr">Interestingly, such confidentiality breaches are technically feasible due to recent 5G/4G call enhancement technologies standardized in the 3GPP specifications and adopted by mobile network operators. While effective in enhancing 5G/4G call quality and efficiency, they, unfortunately, expose extra call information, which can be exploited to infer call states and launch side-channel attacks precisely. Another major contributor to this attack is the IVR technology, which uses a computer-operated telephone system to help companies answer customer calls. In this thesis, we focus on snooping Pay-over-the-Phone transactions done over IVR calls and optionally inferring the company involved in the transaction. The attacks exploit technologies designed to enhance the call quality and efficiency and develop several attack modules to (1) detect voice calls over encrypted 5G/4G traffic, (2) infer the use of IVR over limited call information leaked in the air, and (3) spy on sensitive payment transactions in real-time. We have implemented this proof-of-concept attack using an SDR-based sniffer only. We have validated its effectiveness and assessed damages in various experiments with 5G operators in the US. Lastly, we have discussed the lessons learned from the attacks and the future work that can be done to improve the efficiency of the attacks and make them more threatening.</p>

Depuis plusieurs années, les composants dédiés à la sécurité comme les cartes à puce sont soumises à des attaques dites par canaux cachés. Ces attaques permettent d'exhiber les secrets en analysant des caractéristiques physiques comme la consommation du composant ou encore son temps d'exécution. Dans le cadre de cette thèse, deux contremesures ont été réalisées et appliquées à l'AES (algorithme de chiffrement symétrique). De plus, afin d'aider les développements futurs des contremesures et la validation de celles-ci, un simulateur a été développé. Il permet de réaliser des attaques grâce à un modèle de consommation défini dans les phases amont de développement. Enfin, j'ai pu participer aux groupes de travail qui ont proposé Shabal à la compétition SHA-3, qui vise à définir un nouveau standard pour les fonctions de hachage. Des implantations matérielles ont été réalisées par la suite. / For several years, the security components such as smart cards are subject to side channel attacks. These attacks allow to exhibit secrets by analyzing the physical characteristics such as power consumption or execution time. As part of this thesis, two countermeasures were carried out and applied to the AES (symmetric cipher). In addition, to help future development of countermeasures and their validation, a simulator was developed. It realizes attacks using a power consumption model defined in the early phases of development. Finally, I participated in working groups that have proposed Shabal to SHA-3 competition, which aims to define a new standard for hash functions. Hardware implementations have been made thereafter.

De nos jours, les concepteurs de dispositifs cryptographiques doivent non seulement mettre en œuvre des algorithmes robustes, mais ils doivent également s'assurer qu'il n'y ait pas de fuites d'informations à travers plusieurs canaux latéraux lors de l'exécution d'un algorithme. En effet, si ce n'est pas le cas, les implémentations cryptographiques, tant symétriques qu'asymétriques, seront vulnérables aux attaques par canaux auxiliaires. Pour les algorithmes à clé publique tels que le RSA, l'opération principale que doit être rendue robuste est l'exponentiation modulaire sur un anneau fini. Les principales solutions (contremesures) permettant de rendre robuste l'exponentiation modulaire à ces attaques par canaux auxiliaires sont basées sur la randomisation des données traitées. La randomisation de l'exposant et celle des messages sont en effet des techniques particulièrement efficaces pour contrecarrer les attaques par collision et par analyse des corrélations verticales. Toutefois, ces solutions éculées montrent leurs limites par rapport aux attaques dites horizontales qui n'exploitent qu'une exponentiation. Dans ce contexte, ce document relate le travail de conception, tant matériel que logiciel, d'un chiffreur RSA basé sur les systèmes modulaires de représentation des nombres (RNS). Ce chiffreur incorpore différentes contremesures définies à divers niveaux d'abstraction. L'évaluation de sa robustesse aux attaques par canaux cachés tant horizontales que verticales a démontré sa pertinence. / Not only designers of cryptographic devices have to implement the algorithmsefficiently, they also have to ensure that sensible information that leaks throughseveral side-channels (time, temperature, power consumption, electromagneticemanations, etc.) during the execution of an algorithm, remains unexploitedby an attacker. If not sufficiently protected, both symmetric and asymmetriccryptographic implementations are vulnerable to these so-called side-channelattacks (SCA). For public-key algorithms such as RSA, the main operation to bearmoured consists of a multi-digit exponentiation over a finite ring.Countermeasures to defeat most of side-channel attacks onexponentiations are based on randomization of processed data. The exponentand the message blinding are particular techniques to thwartsimple, collisions, differential and correlation analyses. Attacks based ona single (trace) execution of exponentiations, like horizontal correlationanalysis and profiled template attacks, have shown to be efficient againstmost of popular countermeasures.This work proposes a hardware and software implementations of RSA based on Residue Number System (RNS). Different countermeasures are implemented on different abstraction levels. Then, chosen-message and correlation attacks, based on both multi-trace and single-trace attacks are applied to evaluate the robustness of adopted countermeasures. Finally, we propose an improved single-execution attack based on unsupervised learning and multi-resolution analysis using the wavelet transform.

Les attaques par canaux auxiliaires telles que l'analyse différentielle de la consommation de courant (DPA) et l'analyse différentielle des émissions électromagnétiques (DEMA) constituent une menace sérieuse pour la sécurité des systèmes embarqués. L'objet de cette thèse est d'étudier les vulnérabilités des implantations logicielles des algorithmes cryptographiques face à ces attaques pour concevoir un processeur d'un nouveau type. Pour cela, nous commençons par identifier les différents éléments des processeurs embarqués qui peuvent être exploités pour obtenir des informations secrètes. Puis, nous introduisons des stratégies qui privilégient un équilibre entre performance et sécurité pour protéger de telles architectures au niveau transfert de registres (RTL). Nous présentons également la conception et l'implantation d'un processeur sécurisé, le SecretBlaze-SCR. Enfin, nous évaluons l'efficacité des solutions proposées contre les analyses électromagnétiques globales et locales à partir de résultats expérimentaux issus d'un prototype du SecretBlaze-SCR réalisé sur FPGA. A travers cette étude de cas, nous montrons qu'une combinaison appropriée de contre-mesures permet d'accroître significativement la résistance aux analyses par canaux auxiliaires des processeurs tout en préservant des performances satisfaisantes pour les systèmes embarqués. / Side-channel attacks such as differential power analysis (DPA) and differential electromagnetic analysis (DEMA) pose a serious threat to the security of embedded systems. The aim of this thesis is to study the side-channel vulnerabilities of software cryptographic implementations in order to create a new class of processor. For that purpose, we start by identifying the different elements of embedded processors that can be exploited to reveal the secret information. Then, we introduce several strategies that seek a balance between performance and security to protect such architectures at the register transfer level (RTL). We also present the design and implementation details of a secure processor, the SecretBlaze-SCR. Finally, we evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed solutions against global and local electromagnetic analyses from experimental results obtained with a FPGA-based SecretBlaze-SCR. Through this case study, we show that a suitable combination of countermeasures significantly increases the side-channel resistance of processors while maintaining satisfactory performance for embedded systems.

De nos jours, les attaques par canaux auxiliaires sont facilement réalisables et très puissantes face aux implémentations cryptographiques. Cela pose une sérieuse menace en ce qui concerne la sécurité des crypto-systèmes. En effet, l'exécution d'un algorithme cryptographique produit inévitablement des fuites d'information liées aux données internes manipulées par le cryptosystèmes à travers des canaux auxiliaires (temps, température, consommation de courant, émissions électro-magnétiques, etc.). Certaines d'entre elles étant sensibles, un attaquant peut donc les exploiter afin de retrouver la clé secrète. Une des étapes les plus importantes d'une attaque par canaux auxiliaires est de quantifier la dépendance entre une quantité physique mesurée et un modèle de fuite supposé. Pour se faire, un outil statistique, aussi appelé distingueur, est utilisé dans le but de trouver une estimation de la clé secrète. Dans la littérature, une pléthore de distingueurs a été proposée. Cette thèse porte sur l'attaque utilisant l'information mutuelle comme distingueur, appelé l'attaque par information mutuelle. Dans un premier temps, nous proposons de combler le fossé d'un des problèmes majeurs concernant l'estimation du coefficient d'information mutuelle, lui-même demandant l'estimation de densité. Nos investigations ont été menées en utilisant une méthode non paramétrique pour l'estimation de densité: l'estimation par noyau. Une approche de sélection de la largeur de fenêtre basée sur l'adaptativité est proposée sous forme d'un critère (spécifique au cas des attaques par canaux auxiliaires). Par conséquent, une analyse est menée pour donner une ligne directrice afin de rendre l'attaque par information mutuelle optimale et générique selon la largeur de fenêtre mais aussi d'établir quel contexte (relié au moment statistique de la fuite) est plus favorable pour l'attaque par information mutuelle. Dans un second temps, nous abordons un autre problème lié au temps de calcul élevé (étroitement lié à la largeur de la fenêtre) de l'attaque par information mutuelle utilisant la méthode du noyau. Nous évaluons un algorithme appelé Arbre Dual permettant des évaluations rapides de fonctions noyau. Nous avons aussi montré expérimentalement que l'attaque par information mutuelle dans le domaine fréquentiel, est efficace et rapide quand celle-ci est combinée avec l'utilisation d'un modèle fréquentiel de fuite. En outre, nous avons aussi suggéré une extension d'une méthode déjà existante pour détecter une fuite basée sur un moment statistique d'ordre supérieur. / Nowadays, Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) are easy-to-implement whilst powerful attacks against cryptographic implementations posing a serious threat to the security of cryptosystems for the designers. Indeed, the execution of cryptographic algorithms unvoidably leaks information about internally manipulated data of the cryptosystem through side-channels (time, temperature, power consumption, electromagnetic emanations, etc), for which some of them are sensible(depending on the secret key). One of the most important SCA steps for an adversary is to quantify the dependency between the measured side-channel leakage and an assumed leakage model using a statistical tool, also called distinguisher, in order to find an estimation of the secret key. In the SCA literature, a plethora of distinguishers have been proposed. This thesis focuses on Mutual Information (MI) based attacks, the so-called Mutual Information Analysis (MIA) and proposes to fill the gap of the major practical issue consisting in estimating MI index which itself requires the estimation of underlying distributions. Investigations are conducted using the popular statistical technique for estimating the underlying density distribution with minimal assumptions: Kernel Density Estimation (KDE). First, a bandwidth selection scheme based on an adaptivity criterion is proposed. This criterion is specific to SCA.As a result, an in-depth analysis is conducted in order to provide a guideline to make MIA efficient and generic with respect to this tuning hyperparameter but also to establish which attack context (connected to the statistical moment of leakage) is favorable of MIA. Then, we address another issue of the kernel-based MIA lying in the computational burden through a so-called Dual-Tree algorithm allowing fast evaluations of 'pair-wise` kernel functions. We also showed that MIA running into the frequency domain is really effective and fast when combined with the use of an accurate frequency leakage model. Additionally, we suggested an extension of an existing method to detect leakage embedded on higher-order statistical moments.

Depuis la fin des années 90, les cryptosystèmes implantés sur carte à puce doivent faire face à deux grandes catégories d'attaques : les attaques par canaux cachés et les attaques par injection de fautes. Pour s'en prémunir, des contre-mesures sont élaborées, puis validées en considérant un modèle d'attaquant bien défini. Les travaux réalisés dans cette thèse se concentrent sur la protection des cryptosystèmes symétriques contre les attaques par canaux cachés. Plus précisément, on s'intéresse aux contre-mesures de masquage permettant de se prémunir des attaques statistiques d'ordre supérieur pour lesquelles un attaquant est capable de cibler t valeurs intermédiaires. Après avoir rappelé l'analogie entre les contre-mesures de masquage et les schémas de partage de secret, on présente la construction des schémas de partage de secret à partir de codes linéaires, introduite par James L. Massey en 1993. En adaptant cette construction et des outils issus du calcul multi-parties, on propose une méthode générique de contre-mesure de masquage résistante aux attaques statistiques d'ordre supérieur. De plus, en fonction des cryptosystèmes à protéger et donc des opérations à effectuer, cette solution permet d'optimiserle coût induit par les contre-mesures en sélectionnant les codes les plus adéquats. Dans cette optique, on propose deux contre-mesures de masquage pour implanter le cryptosystème AES. La première est basée sur une famille de code d'évaluation proche de celle utilisée pour le schéma de partage de secret de Shamir, tandis que la seconde considéré la famille des codes auto-duaux et faiblement auto-duaux ayant leur matrice génératrice à coefficient sur F2 ou F4. Ces deux alternatives se révèlent plus efficaces que les contremesures de masquage publiées en 2011 et basées sur le schéma de partage de secret de Shamir. De plus la seconde s'avère compétitive pour t=1 comparée aux solutions usuelles. / Since the late 90s, the implementation of cryptosystems on smart card faces two kinds of attacks : side-channel attacks and fault injection attacks. Countermeasures are then developed and validated by considering a well-defined attacker model. This thesis focuses on the protection of symmetric cryptosystems against side-channel attacks. Specifically, we are interested in masking countermeasures in order to tackle high-order attacks for which an attacker is capable of targeting t intermediate values. After recalling the analogy between masking countermeasures and secret sharing schemes, the construction of secret sharing schemes from linear codes introduced by James L. Massey in 1993 is presented.By adapting this construction together with tools from the field of Multi-Party Computation, we propose a generic masking countermeasure resistant to high-order attacks. Furthermore, depending on the cryptosystem to protect, this solution optimizes the cost of the countermeasure by selecting the most appropriate code. In this context, we propose two countermeasures to implement the AES cryptosystem. The first is based on a family of evaluation codes similar to the Reed Solomon code used in the secret sharing scheme of Shamir. The second considers the family of self-dual and self-orthogonal codes generated by a matrix defined over GF(2) or GF(4). These two alternatives are more effective than masking countermeasures from 2011 based on Shamir's secret sharing scheme. Moreover, for t=1, the second solution is competitive with usual solutions.

Από τότε που ολοένα και περισσότερα εμπιστευτικά δεδομένα ανταλλάσσονται με ηλεκτρονικό τρόπο η ανάγκη για προστασία των δεδομένων αυτών γίνεται ολοένα και μεγαλύτερη. Στις πραγματικές εφαρμογές όπου χρησιμοποιούνται συστήματα κρυπτογραφίας παρατηρούνται νέες τεχνικές επίθεσης πέρα από αυτές που στηρίζονται στην μαθηματική ανάλυση. Εφαρμογές τόσο σε υλικό όσο και σε λογισμικό, παρουσιάζουν ένα αχανές πεδίο από επιθέσεις. Οι Side-Channel-Attacks εκμεταλλεύονται πληροφορίες που διαρρέουν από μια συσκευή κρυπτογράφησης. Μάλιστα από την μέρα που εμφανίστηκε μία συγκεκριμένη μέθοδος επίθεσης, προσελκύει ολοένα και μεγαλύτερο ενδιαφέρον. Πρόκειται για την Διαφορική Ανάλυση Ισχύος (Differential Power Analysis (DPA)) που πρωτοπαρουσιάστηκε από την Cryptography Research. Η DPA χρησιμοποιεί την πληροφορία που διαρρέει από μια συσκευή κρυπτογράφησης, και πρόκειται για την κατανάλωση ισχύος. Μία λιγότερο δυνατή παραλλαγή της DPA είναι η Simple Power Analysis (SPA), που παρουσιάστηκε επίσης από την Cryptography Research. Βασικός στόχος της DPA είναι να μετρηθεί με ακρίβεια η κατανάλωση ισχύος του συστήματος. Έπειτα απαιτείται η γνώση του αλγόριθμου που εκτελείται από την συσκευή, ενώ τέλος απαραίτητο είναι ένα σύνολο από γνωστά κρυπτογραφήματα ή αυθεντικά μηνύματα. Η στρατηγική της επίθεσης απαιτεί την μέτρηση πολλών δειγμάτων και στην συνέχεια την διαίρεσή τους σε δύο ή περισσότερα σύνολα με βάση ενός κανόνα . Εν συνεχεία στατιστικές μέθοδοι χρησιμοποιούνται για την επιβεβαίωση του κανόνα αυτού. Αν και μόνο αν ο κανόνας αυτός είναι σωστός τότε μπορούμε να παρατηρήσουμε αξιοπρόσεκτες τιμές στην στατιστική ανάλυση. Σκοπός της εργασίας αυτής είναι να καθορίσουμε με περισσότερες λεπτομέρειες την DPA, να αναπτύξουμε ένα περιβάλλον που θα πραγματοποιεί την επίθεση αυτή, σε μια υλοποίηση του DES (Data Encryption Standard) αλγόριθμου κρυπτογράφησης με την χρήση FPGA Board και να γίνει πειραματική εκτίμηση. / -

Non-invasive side-channel attacks (SCAs) are potent attacks on a cryptographic circuit that can reveal its secret key without requiring lots of equipment. EM side-channel leakage is typically the derivative of the power consumption profile of a circuit. Since the fluctuations of the supply voltage strongly depend on the topology and features of the power distribution network (PDN), design of the PDN has a direct impact on EM side-channel leakage signature. In this thesis, we explore the security implications of distributed on-chip voltage regulators against EM side-channel attacks. Extensive HFSS simulations have demonstrated that the maximum EM radiation can be reduced by 33 dB and 11 dB, respectively, at the top and bottom sides of an integrated circuit through distributed on-chip voltage regulation. The primary reason is that the power is delivered locally through partially shorter and thinner metal lines as compared to off-chip implementation.

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Dentre estes ataques, os baseados nos traços de potência, conhecidos como ataque por Análise Diferencial de Potência (em inglês Differential Power Analysis – DPA) e na emissão de radiação eletromagnética, denominados de Análise Diferencial Eletromagnética (em inglês Differential Electromagnetic Analysis - DEMA) são os mais populares, e por não serem invasivos, serem eficientes e não deixarem rastros no dispositivo atacado. Por outro lado, estes ataques exigem que a aquisição dos traços de potência ou radiação eletromagnética, sejam alinhados no tempo a fim de comparar e avaliar estatisticamente as amostras relativas a execução de operações com diferentes dados. Na literatura, existem diversas contramedidas visando evitar a ação destes ataques através da inserção de aleatoriedade de execução de operações, seja através da adição de atrasos aleatórios até a execução com diferentes frequências de relógio. Da mesma forma, existem propostas de estratégias baseadas em processamento de sinais aplicadas aos traços a fim de extrair informações vazadas pela arquitetura, métodos como correlação de fase (em inglês, Phase Only Correlation - POC), deformação dinâmica de tempo (do inglês, Dynamic Time Warping - DTW) e filtros digitais são usados em fluxos de ataques para estabelecer o realinhamento de traços antes da realização de ataques. Apesar disso, estes métodos são restritos a traços processados com sinal de relógio de mesma frequência ou com pequenas variações, o que por consequência exigem um grande número de traços e seus agrupamentos por frequência de operação. Este trabalho propõe um fluxo de ataque baseado no cálculo da energia dos traços a fim de permitir o realinhamento dos traços independentemente da frequência de operação e assim potencializar a ação dos ataques DPA em arquiteturas protegidas por contramedidas com inserção de aleatoriedade no processamento. Os resultados obtidos destacam que os ataques DPA são mais efetivos quando o cálculo da energia ocorre com segmentos de tamanho aproximado a metade do ciclo médio das frequências de operação dos traços atacados. Em comparação com trabalhos anteriores, o fluxo permite uma redução, no melhor caso, de aproximadamente 93% traços para um ataque bem-sucedido, motivando o uso do fluxo proposto. / In recent decades one of the major concerns of hardware designers dedicated to applications requiring security and secrecy of information such as smart cards are Side Channel Attacks (SCAs). These attacks allow you to relate processed data to electronic devices with physical quantities such as power consumption, electromagnetic radiation emission or processing time. This becomes critical when, for example, cryptographic algorithms are executed and the cryptographic key can be revealed by the attack. Among these attacks, by power consumption and emission of electromagnetic radiation are the most popular, known as Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and Differential Electromagnetic Analysis (DEMA). Since they are not invasive, efficient and leave no traces on the attacked device. These attacks require that the acquisition of traces of power consumption or electromagnetic radiation relating to the execution of cryptographic algorithms be time aligned in order to statistically compare and evaluate consumption or radiation samples for the execution of operations with different data. In the literature there are several countermeasures of these attacks through the randomization of execution operations either by adding random delays to the by changing clock frequencies. Similarly, there are proposals for strategies based on signal processing applied to the traces in order to extract information leaked by the architecture. Methods such as phase correlation (POC), dynamic time warping (DTW) and digital filters are used to realign traces before attacks. Nevertheless, these methods are restricted to traces processed with clock signal of the same frequency or with small variations, and require a large number of traces or their clustering frequency. This work proposes an attack flow based on the calculation of the trace energy in order to allow the realignment independently of the frequency of operation and thus enable the action of the DPA attacks in architectures with countermeasures based on processing randomization. Results show that DPA attacks are more effective when the energy is calculated in segments of approximately half the average cycle of the frequencies of operation of the traces attacked. Compared to previous works, the flow allows a reduction, in the best case, of approximately 93% traces for a successful attack, motivating the use of the proposed flow.

Power Analysis Attacks pose serious threats to hardware implementations of cryptographic systems. To retrieve the secret key, the attackers can exploit the mutual information between power consumption and processed data / operations through monitoring the power consumption of the cryptosystems. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) have emerged as attractive implementation platforms for providing hardware-like performance and software-like flexibility for cryptosystem developers. These features come at the expense of larger power consumption, which makes FPGAs more vulnerable to power attacks. Different countermeasures have been introduced in the literature, but as they have originally been developed for Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC), mapping them onto FPGAs degrades their effectiveness. In this work, we propose a logic family based on pass transistors, which essentially consists of hardware replication, that can be used to build FPGAs with constant power consumption. Since the power consumption is no longer related to processed data and operations, a quadruple robustness to attacks based on dynamic power consumption, static power consumption, glitches, and early evaluation effect is achieved. Such a secured-by-design FPGA will relieve the cryptosystems developers from doing advanced analog design to secure the cryptosystem implementation. Our pass-transistor logic family can also be used in implementing ASICs. The silicon area overhead costs are shown to be less than prior art, which makes our FPGA attractive to cryptosystems developers. / Graduate / 2018-07-26