Duc-Phong Le

Duc-Phong Le, Rongxing Lu, Ali A. Ghorbani

The advances of the Internet of Things (IoT) have had a fundamental impact and influence in sharping our rich living experiences. However, since IoT devices are usually resource-constrained, lightweight block ciphers have played a major role in serving as a building block for secure IoT protocols. In CHES 2015, SIMECK, a family of block ciphers, was designed for resource-constrained IoT devices. Since its publication, there have been many analyses on its security. In this paper, under the one bit-flip model, we propose a new efficient fault analysis attack on SIMECK ciphers. Compared to those previously reported attacks, our attack can recover the full master key by injecting faults into only a single round of all SIMECK family members. This property is crucial, as it is infeasible for an attacker to inject faults into different rounds of a SIMECK implementation on IoT devices in the real world. Specifically, our attack is characterized by exercising a deep analysis of differential trail between the correct and faulty immediate ciphertexts. Extensive simulation evaluations are conducted, and the results demonstrate the effectiveness and correctness of our proposed attack.

Duc-Phong Le, Nadia El Mrabet, Safia Haloui et al.

In their seminar paper, Miyaji, Nakabayashi and Takano introduced the first method to construct families of prime-order elliptic curves with small embedding degrees, namely k = 3, 4, and 6. These curves, so-called MNT curves, were then extended by Scott and Barreto, and also Galbraith, McKee and Valenca to near prime-order curves with the same embedding degrees. In this paper, we extend the method of Scott and Barreto to introduce an explicit and simple algorithm that is able to generate all families of MNT curves with any given cofactor. Furthermore, we analyze the number of potential families of these curves that could be obtained for a given embedding degree $k$ and a cofactor h. We then discuss the generalized Pell equations that allow us to construct particular curves. Finally, we provide statistics of the near prime-order MNT curves.

Duc-Phong Le, Chik How Tan

Recently, Edwards curves have received a lot of attention in the cryptographic community due to their fast scalar multiplication algorithms. Then, many works on the application of these curves to pairing-based cryptography have been introduced. Xu and Lin (CT-RSA, 2010) presented refinements to improve the Miller algorithm that is central role compute pairings on Edwards curves. In this paper, we study further refinements to Miller algorithm. Our approach is generic, hence it allow to compute both Weil and Tate pairings on pairing-friendly Edwards curves of any embedding degree. We analyze and show that our algorithm is faster than the original Miller algorithm and the Xu-Lin's refinements.