Power Side-Channel Analysis of the CVA6 RISC-V Core at the RTL Level Using VeriSide
By: Behnam Farnaghinejad , Antonio Porsia , Annachiara Ruospo and more
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Finds secret codes hidden in computer chips.
Security in modern RISC-V processors demands more than functional correctness: It requires resilience to side-channel attacks. This paper evaluates the vulnerability of the side channel of the CVA6 RISC-V core by analyzing software-based AES encryption uses an RTL-level power profiling framework called VeriSide. This work represents that this design's Correlation Power Analysis (CPA) reveals significant leakage, enabling key recovery. These findings underscore the importance of early-stage RTL assessments in shaping future secure RISC-V designs.
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