Why Always Distance: Dense-Based Clustering in Side-Channel Analysis

Yuwei Zhang, An Wang, Hongchen Guo*, Yaoling Ding, Shaofei Sun, Jiazhe Chen

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Abstract

Side-Channel analysis poses a significant threat to the security of cryptographic devices. Distance-based clustering methods include K-means and its variants are popularly applied on side-channel analysis in public key cryptography. However, distance-based clustering perform poorly in irregular data distributions. In this paper, we combine density-based clustering methods, such as DBSCAN and OPTICS, with side-channel analysis. In comparison to distance-based clustering methods, density-based methods are better suited for handling irregular data distributions and demonstrate greater robustness against noise. With density-based clustering methods, We successfully recover the operations on power traces with accuracy of 100% on both ECC-Card and ECC-FPGA, while the max accuracy of distance-based clustering methods is only 68.66% on the two datasets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICICN 2023 - 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Information, Communication and Networks
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages405-410
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9798350314014
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Information, Communication and Networks, ICICN 2023 - Hybrid, Xi'an, China
Duration: 17 Aug 202320 Aug 2023

Publication series

NameICICN 2023 - 2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Information, Communication and Networks

Conference

Conference2023 IEEE 11th International Conference on Information, Communication and Networks, ICICN 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHybrid, Xi'an
Period17/08/2320/08/23

Keywords

  • ECC
  • dense-based clustering
  • side-channel analysis

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