Power Analysis Attacks and Countermeasures on NTRU-Based Wireless Body Area Networks

• An Wang,
• Xuexin Zheng,
• Zongyue Wang,

Vol. 7, No. 5, May 30, 2013
10.3837/tiis.2013.05.009, Download Paper (Free):

• cryptography
• Wireless Body Area Networks
• Power Analysis Attack
• NTR

Abstract

NTRU cryptosystem has been suggested for protecting wireless body area networks, which is secure in the sense of traditional cryptanalysis. In this paper, we fulfill the first power analysis attack on the ultra-low-power environment of wireless body area networks. Specifically, two practical differential power analyses on NTRU algorithm are proposed, which can attack the existing countermeasures of NTRU. Accordingly, we suggest three countermeasures against our attacks. Meanwhile, practical experiments show that although the attacks in this paper are efficient, our countermeasures can resist them effectively.

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