Author Date

2023-08-11

Degree Name

Department

Electrical and Computer Engineering

College

Ira A. Fulton College of Engineering

Defense Date

2023-08-04

Publication Date

2023-08-11

First Faculty Advisor

Jeff Goaders

First Faculty Reader

Scott Lloyd

Honors Coordinator

Derek Hansen

Keywords

Cryptography, FPGA, Side-channel attack

Abstract

As field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) perform increasingly critical cryptography, researchers study the safety of these computations. One such compromise on the safety of cryptography is the side-channel attack. These attacks exploit sources of information called leakage that escape a cryptographic system in ways the original design did not intend. One dimension of a successful side-channel attack is the collection of leakage. This research configures the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) on an FPGA and demonstrates strategies for collecting three types of side-channel leakage: power consumption, temperature emissions, and ring oscillations.