Mutual Information Minimization for Side-Channel Attack Resistance via Optimal Noise Injection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20556v2
• Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2025 07:17:06 GMT
• Title: Mutual Information Minimization for Side-Channel Attack Resistance via Optimal Noise Injection
• Abstract summary: Side-channel attacks (SCAs) pose a serious threat to system security by extracting secret keys through physical leakages.<n>We propose an optimal artificial noise injection method to minimize the mutual information in systems with Gaussian inputs.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Side-channel attacks (SCAs) pose a serious threat to system security by extracting secret keys through physical leakages such as power consumption, timing variations, and electromagnetic emissions. Among existing countermeasures, artificial noise injection is recognized as one of the most effective techniques. However, its high power consumption poses a major challenge for resource-constrained systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices, motivating the development of more efficient protection schemes. In this paper, we model SCAs as a communication channel and aim to suppress information leakage by minimizing the mutual information between the secret information and side-channel observations, subject to a power constraint on the artificial noise. We propose an optimal artificial noise injection method to minimize the mutual information in systems with Gaussian inputs. Specifically, we formulate two convex optimization problems: 1) minimizing the total mutual information, and 2) minimizing the maximum mutual information across observations. Numerical results show that the proposed methods significantly reduce both total and maximum mutual information compared to conventional techniques, confirming their effectiveness for resource-constrained, security-critical systems.

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