Abstract: With the increase in portable devices performing cryptographic computations, physical attacks are becoming easy to execute. One of the most common physical attacks is Side-Channel Analysis (SCA), extremely dangerous due to its non-invasive nature. Threshold Implementations (TI) was proposed as the first countermeasure to provide provable security in masked hardware implementations.
In this lecture we will first introduce the method and give examples of HW implementations using Threshold Implementations. Then we will present the most recent developments in the theory and practice of Threshold Implementations and will demonstrate Tis providing various trade-offs and achieving efficiency and security of HW implementations.
Biography: Dr. Svetla Nikova is a Research Manager in Cryptography and Computer Security in the research group COSIC at ESAT, KU Leuven, Belgium and Adjunct Professor in University of Bergen, Norway. Prior to that she was Assistant Professor in University of Twente, NL. Her main research topics include: Side-channel resistant implementations, Secret Sharing Schemes and Multi-Party Computation, Boolean functions and symmetric cryptographic primitives. She is a co-author of more than 100 research papers in international journals and conferences. Dr. Nikova has been managing and contributed to a large number of research projects (EU, Belgian and US). Most recently she is Project Coordinator of the FWO SBO project SNIPPET and a co-PI of a research project about Threshold Implementations funded by NIST, US. She is a (co)-supervisor of 10 PhD students and has served as an examiner in PhD committees. Svetla Nikova is an elected member of the Board of Directors of the Trust in Digital Life. She is a member of the steering committee of CHES, CARDIS and WAIFI, she has been serving in a number of PCs and a member of the Board of Directors of IACR.
