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Agenda
 Abstract
 Introduction
What is Security Testing
Purpose of Security Testing
Scan-Based Attacks
Types of Attacks
 Content of Attackers
Misuse of Test Interfaces
Conclusion
References

Abstract
Cryptographic circuits need to be protected against side-
channel attacks, which target their physical attributes while the
cryptographic algorithm is in execution. There can be various
side-channels, such as power, timing, electromagnetic
radiation, fault response, and so on. One such important side-
channel is the design-for-testability (DfT) infrastructure present
for effective and timely testing of VLSI circuits.The purpose of
this paper is to rst present a detailed survey on the state-of-
the-art in scan-based side-channel attacks on symmetric and
public-key cryptographic hardware implementations, both in
the absence and presence of advanced DfT structures, such
as test compression and X-masking, which may make the
attack diffcult.

Introduction
Structural testing is one important step in the production of
integrated circuits. Indeed, the fabrication of CMOS devices is
not a totally controlled process and some of the manufactured
Chips may not work properly. Testing is therefore essential to
Sort faulty and good circuits and thus ensure the quality of the
products. The increasing test cost of new technologies demands
the insertion of test-oriented structures early in the integrated
circuit (IC) design cycle, which is called Design-for-Testabilit
(DfT). These structures aims at improving the testability
(mainl the capacity to detect the presence of faults), diagnostics,
test time and reducing the number of required test pins.

What is Security Testing
Security testing is a process to determine that
an information system protects data and maintains
functionality.
To check whether there is any information leakage.
To test the application whether it has unauthorized
access and having the encoded security code.
To finding out all the potential loopholes and
weaknesses of the system.

Purpose of Security Testing
Primary purpose of security testing is to identify the
vulnerabilities and subsequently repairing them.
Security Testing helps in improving the current system
and also helps in ensuring that the system will work
for longer time.
Security test helps in finding out loopholes that can
cause loss of important information.

Scan-Based Attacks
The insertion of scan chains consists of replacing the flip-flops
(FFs) of the design by scan flip-flops (SFFs) and connecting
these SFFs into a shift-register, called scan chain.
The scan chain is bound to a input pin (scan-in) and to an
output pin (scan-out). An extra pin called scan-enable should
be added to control the scan chain's data shifting. If the scanenable
is set to 0, the SFFs are connected to the circuit to
behave as functionally expected (functional mode). When the
scan-enable is set to 1, the SFFs are connected to the scan
chain, and the bitstream at the scan-in is shifted in while the
data stored in the SFFs is shifted out through the scan-out pin.

Scan-Based Attacks
By controlling the scan-in and scan-enable inputs and observing the
scan-out pin, and attacker can observe confidential data or corrupt
internal states. Then the below Fig. 1 illustrates the duality between test
and security.

Types of Attacks:
Attack Basic Procedure
Attacking Cryptographic Primitives
Attacker Model
Known Scan-Based Attacks

Attack Basic Procedure
 As depicted in Fig. 1, the attacker can use the shift operation maliciously,
switching from functional to test mode at will.
 Even if the attacker uses the shift operation as the test engineer, the attack's
procedure is different from the standard test procedure.
 For instance, suppose that some of
 the flip-flops inserted on the scan chain contain confidential Information .
 An observability attack would consist of the following steps:
a. reset the circuit
b. load the chosen input at the cipher's input
c. run part of the encryption
d. switch to test
e. mode when the intermediate flip-flops contain data related to the secret and
shift out the scan contents containing this confidential information
f. analyze the observed contents and try to uncover the secret key.

Attacking Cryptographic Primitives
 The science of coding and decoding messages so as to
keep these messages secure. Coding takes place using
a key that ideally is known only by the sender and
intended recipient of the message.
 In computer programming, a primitive is a basic
interface or segment of code that can be used to build
more sophisticated program elements or interfaces.
 The below Fig. 2 shows an example of how the scan-
based attacks can compromise the security of
symmetric-key or public-key cryptography.

 Both symmetric-key and public-key algorithms usually have structures
that repeat the same operations for multiple iterations.
 The more iterations, the harder for attackers to nd out the secret by
only observing the plaintext/input and the ciphertext/output.

Attacker Model
 In this model we classify into 4 classes.
 They are:
Class 1: Amateur,
Class 2: Expert,
Class 3: Insider,
Class 4: Expert with advanced equipment

Attacker Model
 Class 1: Amateur
Knows the cipher algorithm implementation, as well as timing
diagrams for correctly operating the circuit (this information is usually
present in the circuit datasheet).
 Class 2: Expert
Can uncover design details with the help of DPA or timing analysis,
consisting mainly of input/output register buffers and additional
registers that may be affected by plaintext (DFF storage elements).
These DFFs may complicate the observation of data related to the
secret.

Attacker Model
 Class 3: Insider
Knows the correspondence between the circuit flip-flops and their
position within the scan chain.
 Class 4: Expert with advanced equipment
Can remove the chip package and probe internal signals. This is
important in cases where the scan chains are disconnected after
manufacturing test by means of anti-fuses. This class of attackers can
still probe unconnected scan chains.
 It must be noted that a Class 3 or 4 attacker have of course all the
abilities of the lower class attackers.

Known Scan-Based Attacks
 The rst scan attack proposed in the literature was conceived to
break a Data Encryption Standard (DES) block cipher.
 Yang et al. described a two-phase procedure that consists in first
finding the position of the intermediate registers in the scan
chain, and then retrieving the DES first round key.
 In order to find the position, 64 pairs of plaintexts are loaded.
Two plaintexts are loaded.
 Two plaintexts of any of these pairs have a single-bit difference
and each pair has a difference in a different location.
 Using the procedure described in subsection II-A, the attacker
shifts out internal states when the plaintexts are loaded into the
registers that store the intermediate values and then these
register's flip-flops are localized.
 Then the attacker applies three chosen plaintexts and shifts out
the scan data to recover the first round key.

Misuse of Test Interfaces
 Test interfaces such as JTAG and IEEE 1500 have two
security drawbacks:
 they make scan-based attacks easier and
 They can be used to upload corrupted firmware in non-
volatile
 memories or read out internal contents.
 The first issue comes from the fact that they provide access
to individual components(chips on board or cores on
SoCs).
 It implies that malicious users can apply scan-based attacks
on the cryptographic blocks only, which makes the analysis
phase of the attack easier.

Conclusion
In this paper we described two main issues related to the
test and security domain: scan-based attacks and misuse of
JTAG interfaces. Both threats exploit security issues present
in structures that implemented test and debug of digital
ICs. To help the understanding of scan-based attacks, we
have described the principles of these attacks. Then we
presented a survey of the known scan-based attacks so
that designers can take them into account when building
new circuits. Additionally, we described some well known
issues related to the misuse of JTAG and IEEE 1500 test
interfaces.

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