Hardened white box implementation 1

Abstract

The invention provides a processor device having an executable, white-box-masked implementation of a cryptographic algorithm implemented thereon. The white-box masking comprises an affine mapping A, which is so designed that every bit in the output values w of the affine mapping A depends on at least one bit of the obfuscation values y, thereby attaining that the output values w of the affine mapping A are statistically balanced.

Claims

1. A processor device comprising: one or more processors, wherein the one or more processors has an executable white-box-masked implementation of a cryptographic algorithm implemented thereon, which is configured to generate an output text, from an input text while employing a secret key K, wherein the implementation comprises an implemented computation step S by which input values x are mapped to output values s=S[x], and which is masked to a white-box-masked computation step T by means of an invertible function f; wherein the invertible function f comprises an affine mapping A applied to the computation step S, said mapping being configured to generate output values w from A by applying A to output values s of the computation step S and additionally to one or several obfuscation values y which are statistically independent of the output values s of the computation step S, so that it holds that w=A(S[x], y)=A(s, y); and wherein the affine mapping A is further so designed that every bit in the output values w of the affine mapping A depends on at least one bit of the obfuscation values y, thereby attaining that the output values w of the affine mapping A are statistically balanced.

2. The processor device according to claim 1, wherein the affine mapping A comprises a linear mapping which is formed by a matrix MA, which is organized in columns and rows, wherein the output values s of the computation step S and the statistically independent obfuscation values y are associated with separate columns in the matrix MA.

3. The processor device according to claim 2, wherein in each row of the matrix MA in at least one of the columns having statistically independent values y there is contained a non-zero value.

4. The processor device according to claim 1, wherein for carrying out the implementation of the white-box-masked computation step T there has been supplied a look-up table STab[x] representing the computation step S, or a look-up table STab[x,y] representing the computation step S and the obfuscation values y.

5. The processor device according to claim 1, wherein the white-box-masked computation step T is represented by a white-box-masked look-up table TTab [x, y] in which values f(s, y) are entered.

6. The processor device according to claim 1, wherein the implementation additionally comprises a further invertible function g to be applied to input values x of the computation step S, or to input values x of the computation step S and to obfuscation values y according to g.sup.1(x) or g.sup.1(x, y).

7. The processor device according to claim 1, wherein there is provided as an algorithm a block cipher having several rounds, and as a computation step S: one or several SBox operations or one or several inverse SBox operations, of one round in each case; or a combination of one or several SBox operations or one or several inverse SBox operations, of respectively one round, with one or several further operations of the round.

8. The processor device according to claim 7 having algorithm DES, wherein there is/are provided as an input value x either one or several expanded right entry bits ri ( r1 |r2|. . . ) of a round, or a linkage (x=r1 XOR k1|r2 XOR k2 |. . . ) of one or several expanded right entry bits ri of a round with one or several key bits ki; or/and one or several left entry bits li of the round go into the obfuscation values y.

9. The processor device according to claim 7 having algorithm DES, wherein the obfuscation values y are computed by means of a function V from one or several left entry bits li of the round or/and from one or several expanded right entry bits ri of the round, wherein V is electively a linear mapping or a hash function.

10. The processor device according to claim 9, wherein the algorithm has several rounds and the function V is newly chosen for every round.

11. The processor device according to claim 7, having algorithm DES, wherein the further operations comprise one or several of the following: permutation P; expansion E; addition of left and right entry bits 1, r or left and expanded right entry bits 1, r.

12. The processor device according to claim 7 having algorithm AES, wherein there is provided as an input value x an input value or part of an input value of an AddRoundKey operation or a SubBytes operation or an inverse SubBytes operation of an AES round.

13. The processor device according to claim 7 having algorithm AES, wherein the further operations comprise one or several of the following: MixColumn operation or one or several substeps of the MixColumn operation or inverse MixColumn operation or one or several substeps of the inverse MixColumn operation.

14. The processor device according to claim 1, wherein the obfuscation values y are computed respectively by means of a function V from bits of the input text, wherein V is electively a linear mapping or a hash function.

15. The processor device according to claim 14, wherein the algorithm has several rounds and the function V is newly chosen for every round.

16. The processor device according to claim 1, wherein the obfuscation values y further comprise one or several random values y[x], which are added to at least one or all of the output values s of the computation step S, wherein the random values y[x] are first selected randomly and thereupon altered in such a way that y[x] and s are statistically independent.

17. The processor device according to claim 1, wherein the computation step S has been implemented on the processor device as a white-box-masked computation step T in that: (i) the computation step S has been carried out to generate output values s, and (ii) the invertible function f has been applied to the generated output values s of the computation step S and the obfuscation values y, and a thereby achieved result T has been implemented on the processor device.

18. A method of executing a white-box-masked implementation of a cryptographic algorithm implemented on a processor device, which is configured to generate an output text, from an input text while employing a secret key K, the method comprising: implementing a computation step S by which input values x are mapped to output values s=S[x], and which is masked to a white-box-masked computation step T by an invertible function f, wherein the invertible function f includes an affine mapping A applied to the computation step S, said mapping being configured to generate output values w from A by applying A to output values s of the computation step S and additionally to one or several obfuscation values y which are statistically independent of the output values s of the computation step S, so that it holds that w=A(S[x], y)=A(s, y); and wherein the affine mapping A is further so designed that every bit in the output values w of the affine mapping A depends on at least one bit of the obfuscation values y such that the output values w of the affine mapping A are statistically balanced.

19. One or more non-transitory computer-readable mediums having stored thereon executable instructions that when executed by the one or more processors of a processor device configure the processor device to perform a method of executing a white-box-masked implementation of a cryptographic algorithm implemented on the processor device, which is configured to generate an output text, from an input text while employing a secret key K, comprising: implementing a computation step S by which input values x are mapped to output values s=S[x], and which is masked to a white-box-masked computation step T by an invertible function f, wherein the invertible function f includes an affine mapping A applied to the computation step S, said mapping being configured to generate output values w from A by applying A to output values s of the computation step S and additionally to one or several obfuscation values y which are statistically independent of the output values s of the computation step S, so that it holds that w=A(S[x], y)=A(s, y); and wherein the affine mapping A is further so designed that every bit in the output values w of the affine mapping A depends on at least one bit of the obfuscation values y such that the output values w of the affine mapping A are statistically balanced.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

(1) Hereinafter the invention will be explained more closely on the basis of exemplary embodiments and with reference to the drawings, in which are shown:

(2) FIG. 1 a DES round in standard representation, according to the prior art, suitably as the basis of the invention;

(3) FIG. 2 a DES round in an alternative representation, having S-box operations S embedded in operations T, and specifically suitably as the basis of the invention;

(4) FIG. 3 a detail representation of an individual operation T in the DES round of FIG. 2;

(5) FIG. 4 a white-box masking of a DES round according to FIG. 1, or according to FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, according to embodiments of the invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENT EXAMPLES

(6) FIG. 1 shows a DES round according to the prior art. By means of FIG. 1 it is indicated that a computation step S, as is the basis of the invention, can be for example a S-box operation or the totality of eight S-boxes of a DES round. At the entry of a DES round, 64 bit entry data are divided into 32 bit left side L=lj, j=0, . . . , 31 and 32 bit right side R=rj, j=0, . . . 31. The bits of the right side R are expanded by means of an expansion operation to 48 bit expanded entry data E=rj, j=0, . . . 47 of the right side. The 48 bit expanded entry data E having 48 bit key data K=kj, j=0, . . . 47 are linked by means of an XOR operation to input values xj=rj XOR kj, j=0, . . . 47 for eight S-boxes S. Each of the eight S-boxes S=S1, . . . S8 processes six bits input values xj to each four bits output values sj. The four bit wide output values sj of the eight S-boxes S=S1, . . . S8 are fed to a permutation operation P, and the output values of the permutation P are XORed with bits of the left side and fed to the next DES round. Here the DES round ends with the standard DES implementation.

(7) According to the invention, and as represented in FIG. 4, the DES S-box Si (dashed encircled region) is white-box-masked in specially hardened manner. For the white-box masking, the output values sj of the S-boxes are fed to a matrix MA according to the invention by which the linear mapping is represented in the affine mapping A according to w=f(S[x])=A(S[x])=MA(S[x]) (note: in addition to A, f moreover optionally contains invertible images ci, which preferably are applied after A has been applied). Further, in addition to the output values sj of the S-boxes, statistically independent values y are fed to the matrix MA, for example two or more bits lj, j=0, . . . 31 of the left side 64 bit entry data at the entry of the DES round. For the statistically independent values y, there holds a(y)=MA*y+v (v a vector). To attain the special hardening of the white-box masking, the matrix MA is so configured that in addition to the S-Box output values sj, incoming values y are statistically independent of the S-Box output values sj, and that each bit in the output values w of the matrix MA depends on at least one bit from the obfuscation values y.

(8) Hereinafter there is set forth by means of FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 an alternative particularly suitable representation of a DES round for implementing the invention, in which the operations specific to a DES round S-box operation S and permutation P are summarized in a combined operation T. In so doing, the white-box masking will be applied with the mapping A, or concretely with the matrix MA, to the combined operation T, in which the S-Box operation is contained (see FIG. 4).

(9) FIG. 2 shows a DES round in an alternative representation, specifically suitably for the application of a white-box masking according to the invention. At the entry of the DES round, first as in FIG. 1, 64 bit entry data are divided into 32 bit left side L=lj, j=0, . . . , 31 and 32 bit right side R=rj, j=0, . . . 31, and the bits of the right side are expanded to 48 bit E(R). For the alternative representation of FIG. 2, two or more bits of the 32 bit L=lj, j=0, . . . , 31 of the left side of the round entry data are employed as obfuscation width y. In this way, upon executing the DES round, the DES-specific eight S-box operations are executed by the fact that a multiplicity of eight or ten combined operations T=T0, . . . T7 or T0, . . . T9 is carried out, in which the S-Box operations S=S1, . . . S8 are comprised.

(10) FIG. 3 shows the detailed structure of an individual combined operation T=Ti, i=0, . . . 7 (or 0, . . . 9 where applicable) of FIG. 2. (Optionally additionally present padding with zero bits and shifts are omitted in FIG. 3 in favor of better clarity.) In the combined operations T=Ti of FIG. 2 and FIG. 3, as opposed to the S-boxes S of the DES representation of FIG. 1, the key kj and the DES-typical permutation P are already taken into account in the operation T. The S-box with the key kj taken into account is represented in FIG. 3 by the operation box Si (-XORkij), the permutation by P. Further, before the computation step S, thus before the S-box operations S1, . . . S8, eight (or ten) overall tables T0, . . . T7 (or T0, . . . T9) are generated, in which respectively six bit entry values xj=rj, j=0, . . . 47 (now not XORed with k, because the key bits kj are already contained in S) for eight S-boxes S and two bit obfuscation values lj, j=0, . . . , 31 are contained and for ten overall tables Ti further bits obfuscation values lj, j=0, . . . , 31 are contained. Here, the two (or more) bit obfuscation values lj are not processed by the boxes. The each six bit entry values xj=rj XOR kj are each processed by an S-box. Therefore the overall tables Ti deliver output values which contain exit values sj of the S-boxes as well as obfuscation values lj.

(11) As represented in FIG. 4, the white-box masking of the implementation is carried out by feeding the output values of the combined operations (overall tables) Ti to the matrix MA according to the invention by which the affine mapping A according to the invention is represented. Here, the exit values S(x) of the computation step S, bits of the entry value x thus bits rj of the right side, as well as the statistically independent values y, i.e. the bits employed as obfuscation values lj of the left side of the DES round entry value, are fed to the matrix MA. A separate fetching of the statistically independent values y=lj is not required here, because they are already contained in the combined operation T. For this reason the DES representation of FIG. 2 is particularly well suitable for implementing the invention. The result of the masking are white-box-masked operations Ti, i=0, . . . 9 or i=0, . . . 7. These white-box-masked operations Ti are implemented into the processor device.

(12) In the embodiment of FIG. 4, the affine mapping A contained in the mapping f employed in the white-box masking is configured as a matrix MA, having coefficients aij, i=0, . . . l1, j=0, . . . n+m1.

(13) The matrix MA is multiplied by the entry vector (s,y), which comprises S-box exit values s=S[x] (e.g. bits r of the right side) and obfuscation values y (e.g. bits of the left side), to generate an exit vector w. The sum formula in FIG. 4 illustrates this aspect for an individual row i having the coefficients aij (j=0, n+m1) of the matrix MA, and an individual record i generated thereby of the exit vector w. In the entry vector (s,y), the S-box exit values s are contained in the upper n records and the obfuscation values y in the lower m records. The matrix MA correspondingly contains on the left the n coefficients aij, j=0, . . . n1 of MA to be multiplied with the S-box exit values s=s0, sn1. On the right in the matrix MA are the m coefficients aij, j=n, . . . n+m1 of MA to be multiplied with the obfuscation values y=y0, . . . ym1.

(14) The matrix MA is so constructed according to the invention that the effect is achieved that the right sum of the sum equation for i (note: i designates individual bits of w

(15) $\underset{j=0}{\overset{m-1}{.Math.}}{a}_{i,n+j}{}_j$
disappears for no row index i, i=0, . . . l1. This effect is attained by the fact that in every row i, at least one of the coefficients ai, n+j, j=0, . . . m1, which are to be multiplied with the obfuscation values y=yj, j=0, . . . m1, is non-zero. Through the effect it is ensured that in no row i, i=0, . . . l1 the obfuscation values y in the output vector w disappear, thus in every row i in the record wi of the output vector w at least one obfuscation value yj is contained. This in turn has the further-reaching effect that the output values w of the affine mapping A are statistically balanced.

Glossary

(16) General:

(17) S: computation step, in particular DES SBOX or eight DES S-boxes, in particular for standard representation of DES

(18) T: operation comprising computation step S, for alternative DES representation

(19) T: white-box-obfuscated computation step S, having S embedded in T where applicable

(20) x: input value in computation step S (or T)

(21) y: obfuscation value

(22) r: expanded right side of the input of a round

(23) k: key

(24) s: output value of S (e.g. S-box)

(25) w: output value of T(masked S)

(26) If S=DES S-box or eight DES S-boxes:

(27) x=r XOR k for standard representation of DES

(28) x=r for alternative representation of DES

(29) l=bits from left side of the bits at the DES round-entry (32 bit)

(30) r=bits from right side of the bits at the DES round-entry (32 bit)

(31) r=bits from expanded right side r at the DES round-entry (48 bit)

CITED PRIOR ART

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