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At CHES 2006, a DPA countermeasure based on the Fourier Transform was published. This generic countermeasure aims at protecting from DPA any S-box calculation used in symmetric cryptosystems implementations. In this paper, we show that this countermeasure has a flaw and that it can be broken by first order DPA. Moreover, we have successfully put into practice our attack on two different S-box implementations. Finally, we propose an improvement of the original countermeasure and we prove its security against first order DPA.
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Coron, JS., Giraud, C., Prouff, E., Rivain, M. (2008). Attack and Improvement of a Secure S-Box Calculation Based on the Fourier Transform. In: Oswald, E., Rohatgi, P. (eds) Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems – CHES 2008. CHES 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5154. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85053-3_1
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