Computer Science – Cryptography and Security
Scientific paper
2009-12-15
Computer Science
Cryptography and Security
Scientific paper
Side channel attacks have emerged as a serious threat to the security of both networked and embedded systems -- in particular through the implementations of cryptographic operations. Side channels can be difficult to model formally, but with careful coding and program transformation techniques it may be possible to verify security in the presence of specific side-channel attacks. But what if a program intentionally makes a tradeoff between security and efficiency and leaks some information through a side channel? In this paper we study such tradeoffs using ideas from recent research on declassification. We present a semantic model of security for programs which allow for declassification through side channels, and show how side-channel declassification can be verified using off-the-shelf software model checking tools. Finally, to make it simpler for verifiers to check that a program conforms to a particular side-channel declassification policy we introduce a further tradeoff between efficiency and verifiability: by writing programs in a particular "manifest form" security becomes considerably easier to verify.
Sands David
Svenningsson Josef
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