Hello everyone,
As the title mentioned, this always confuses me. For example,
0x34 and 0x07 share the same Hamming Weight, 3. Then how could we recover them from this same Hamming Weight?
Alan.
Hello everyone,
As the title mentioned, this always confuses me. For example,
0x34 and 0x07 share the same Hamming Weight, 3. Then how could we recover them from this same Hamming Weight?
Alan.
You are right, but a CPA attack (for example) is a little bit more involved than that.
We have a brief write-up here: https://wiki.newae.com/Correlation_Power_Analysis
I also recommend this paper: https://iacr.org/archive/ches2004/31560016/31560016.pdf
Jean-Pierre
What is important here and what Jean-Pierre is probably hinting at is the combination of two points:
I hope that clarifies it a bit more.