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Abstract
In this paper, we describe and analyze an island-based random dynamic voltage
scaling (iRDVS) approach to thwart power side-channel attacks. We first analyze
the impact of the number of independent voltage islands on the resulting
signal-to-noise ratio and trace misalignment. As part of our analysis of
misalignment, we propose a novel unsupervised machine learning (ML) based
attack that is effective on systems with three or fewer independent voltages.
Our results show that iRDVS with four voltage islands, however, cannot be
broken with 200k encryption traces, suggesting that iRDVS can be effective. We
finish the talk by describing an iRDVS test chip in a 12nm FinFet process that
incorporates three variants of an AES-256 accelerator, all originating from the
same RTL. This included a synchronous core, an asynchronous core with no
protection, and a core employing the iRDVS technique using asynchronous logic.
Lab measurements from the chips indicated that both unprotected variants failed
the test vector leakage assessment (TVLA) security metric test, while the iRDVS
was proven secure in a variety of configurations.