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AffiliationNanyang Technological University
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Differential Deep Learning Analysis (DDLA) is a deep learning-based non-profiling side-channel attack leveraging neural networks to classify Physical Leakage Information with labels. To avoid the Class Imbalance Problem (CIP) of significantly different data sizes in different data groups, DDLA employs bit labels. However, applying bit labels will be less effective for exploiting leakage. In this paper, we propose to employ Correlation Optimization Deep Learning Analysis (CO-DLA) to circumvent the CIP in DDLA by converting the classification in DDLA into a correlation optimization. Bus labels can then be used to exploit stronger leakage information. To validate the attack efficacy improvement, we perform experiments on ASCAD synchronized and de-synchronized masked AES-128 datasets. For the synchronized masked dataset, our proposed CO-DLA requires only 5k traces, which is 75% lesser than the 20k traces required by the reported DDLA, to reveal the key-byte. For the 2 de-synchronized masked datasets, our proposed CO-DLA requires only 10k traces to reveal the key-byte from both of them while the reported DDLA fails to reveal the key-byte.