Framework for efficient SCA resistance verification of IoT devices

Side-channel attacks (SCA) are capable of bypassing the theoretical protection of cryptographic schemes and revealing secret information in hardware devices. They have become a serious threat to the hardware security of the cryptographic modules. Entering the Internet of Things (IoT) era, it is crucial to verify the IoT devices' ability to thwart potential attacks from stealing confidential data. In this work, we set out to design and implement a framework for efficient SCA resistance verification. By integrating trace measurement equipment and GPU-accelerated analyzing engines, we have successfully built an automatic system which greatly simplifies the test procedure and enables on-the-fly SCA tests. Experiment results on common IoT development boards show both promising strength and flexibility of our framework to meet different testing requirements smoothly.