Decimated in linear time; single power trace, full key recovery attack on Toeplitz hash privacy amplification
We demonstrate a template power side channel attack that recovers the full secret key on an implementation of a radix-2 Decimation in Time Fast Fourier Transform (DIT-FFT) optimised Toeplitz Hashing based privacy amplification, commonly used in quantum key distribution. The duration of the attack is linear in time with respect to the input key length when the target platform is an ARM Cortex-M4 and is successful with a single power trace. We demonstrate that key leakage is present in an Artix-7 FPGA power trace, but high noise makes a single trace attack difficult.
Authors
- Tuan Hoang
- Ayesha; id_orcid 0000-0002-4815-6966 Khalid
- Niall; id_orcid 0009-0001-1089-0970 Canavan
- Maire O'Neill
Publication Details
- Journal
- Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast)
- Published
- 2025-08-04
- Primary Topic
- Cryptographic Implementations and Security
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Government of the United Kingdom
- UK Research and Innovation
- Queen's University Belfast
- Queen's University