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Arthur Blot

Tuesday, February 21, 2017

10:45am Meeting room 302 (Mountain View), level 3

Arthur Blot, Research Intern, IMDEA Software Institute

Compositional Synthesis of Leakage Resilient Programs

Abstract:

A promising approach to defend against side channel attacks is to build programs that are leakage resilient, in a formal sense. One such formal notion of leakage resilience is the n-threshold-probing model proposed in the seminal work by Ishai et al. In a recent work, Eldib and Wang have proposed a method for automatically synthesizing programs that are leakage resilient according to this model, for the case n = 1. In this paper, we show that the n-threshold-probing model of leakage resilience enjoys a certain compositionality property that can be exploited for synthesis. We use the property to design a synthesis method that efficiently synthesizes leakage-resilient programs in a compositional manner, for the general case of n > 1. We have implemented a pro- totype of the synthesis algorithm, and we demonstrate its effectiveness by synthesizing leakage-resilient versions of benchmarks taken from the literature.