Kavach_artifacts

Welcome to the kavach artifacts!

In support of our work:

Aikata Aikata, Andrea Basso, Gaetan Cassiers, Ahmet Can Mert, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Kavach: Lightweight masking techniques for polynomial arithmetic in lattice-based cryptography, IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst., 2023.

A pre-print of the paper is available at: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/517

Getting started

This is the root folder and it contains the following important files and directories:
- USAGE.md: a tutorial on using our scripts
- HW: the hardware design files and Vivado scripts.
- SW: python scripts for the CW305 board, verifying the hardware functionality, and the collecting the measurements.
- data: python scripts processing the side-channel datasets and storage of the datasets.

In each of the three directories, there is a README.md file to help you navigate through them.

Hardware setup

We use ChipWhisperer (cw305) along with Picoscope6000 to collect measurements as shown below.

Software dependencies

1. Vivado (tested on 2019.1 and 2022.2) (If there is a different version please re-run the hardware bitstream generation).
2. python3 (tested on python3.10), with PyPI packages in requirements.txt.

Note: Vivado is not needed if you only run analyzes on the datasets we provide.

Datasets

We provide side-channel datasets, to be downloaded separately from an open-data repository. See data/README.md.

License

Kavach is licensed under the terms of the
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. See license.txt for more details.

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