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Hash-based message authentication code (HMAC) is widely used in authentication and message integrity. As a Chinese hash algorithm, the SM3 algorithm is gradually winning domestic market value in China. The side channel security of HMAC based on SM3 (HMAC-SM3) is still to be evaluated, especially in hardware implementation, where only intermediate values stored in registers have apparent Hamming distance leakage. In addition, the algorithm structure of SM3 determines the difficulty in HMAC-SM3 side channel analysis. In this paper, a skillful bit-wise chosen-plaintext correlation power attack procedure is proposed for HMAC-SM3 hardware implementation. Real attack experiments on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) board have been performed. Experimental results show that we can recover the key from the hypothesis space of 2256 based on the proposed procedure.
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The authors would like to thank Xu-guang GUAN, Tao SUN, Yong GU, et al., who are from State Key Laboratory of Cryptography, for the nice cooperation and meaningful suggestion.
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Project supported by the Major Program of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (No. 2017ZX01030301) and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 4162053)
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Yuan, Y., Qu, Kg., Wu, Lj. et al. Correlation power attack on a message authentication code based on SM3. Frontiers Inf Technol Electronic Eng 20, 930–945 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.1800312
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