Evaluation Metrics of Physical Non-invasive Security
Abstract
Physical non-invasive security has become crucial
for cryptographic modules, which are widely used in pervasive computing.
International security evaluation standards, such as U.S. Federal
Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-3 and Common Criteria (CC)
part 3 have added special requirements addressing physical non-invasive
security. However, these evaluation standards lack of quantitative
metrics to explicitly guide the design and measurement. This paper
proposes practice-oriented quantitative evaluation metrics, in which the
distinguishability between the key predictions is measured under
statistical significance tests. Significant distinguishability between
the most possible two key candidates suggests high success rates of the
right key prediction, thus indicates a low security degree. The
quantitative evaluation results provide high accountability of security
performance. The accordance with FIPS 140-3 makes the proposed
evaluation metrics a valuable complement to these widely adopted
standards. Case studies on various smart cards demonstrate that the
proposed evaluation metrics are accurate and feasible.
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Digital Libraries [cs.DL]Origin | Files produced by the author(s) |
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