Design of differential power analysis resistant crypto chip based on time randomization

Differential Power Analysis (DPA) is an effective attack method to break the crypto chips and it has been considered to be a threat to security of information system. With analyzing the principle of resist-ing DPA, an available countermeasure based on randomization is proposed in this paper. Time delay is in-serted in the operation process and random number is precharged to the circuit during the delay time, the normal schedule is disturbed and the power is randomized. Following this methodology, a general DPA re-sistance random precharge architecture is proposed and DES algorithm following this architecture is imple-mented. This countermeasure is testified to be efficient to resist DPA.