Available Power Traces Tables
Tables Description
January 2015: The PostgreSQL server is no longer available. The only remaining method to retrieve the traces is to download them. The instructions are given at the bottom of this page.
The power consumption traces available for the DPA contest, are stored in a public PostgreSQL database. These traces are regrouped by acquisition campaign, where each campaign is stored in a distinct table. The tables entries contain the following fields:
- index: a unique identifier for a trace.
- message: the clear message ciphered during the measurement.
- key: the key used to cipher the message (the one your algorithm has to guess, so you can check if it worked successfully).
- cryptogram: the result of the clear message's DES encipherment.
- date: the date and time at which the measure has been done.
- filename: the original filename used to store the trace.
- filecontent: the properly trace data stored in an Agilent `.bin' format, a parser of which is provided in the reference implementation. Agilent distributes a documentation for the format and an example C programme that turns the `.bin' into a `.csv'.
The publicly available tables are described below. They correspond to the three leakage curves discussed at FDTC'08, in slides 21-24 of this presentation.
| Table name | secmatv1_2006_04_0809 | secmatv3_20070924_des | secmatv3_20071219_des |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traces count | 81,089 | 81,569 | 67,753 |
| Description | Power consumption traces of the unprotected DES crypto-processor on the SecmatV1 SoC in ASIC. The measures have been done during a temporal window containing the 16 nominal DES rounds. These measurements have to be used for the contest. |
Power consumption traces of the unprotected DES crypto-processor in the SecmatV3 SoC in ASIC. The measures have been done during a temporal window containing the 16 nominal DES rounds. |
Power consumption traces of the unprotected DES crypto-processor on the SecmatV3 SoC in FPGA (Altera Stratix). The measures have been done during a temporal window containing the 16 nominal DES rounds. |
| Average trace | ![Average SecMatV1[ASIC] power traces](img/secmatv1ASIC_avg.png) |
![Average SecMatV3[ASIC] power traces](img/secmatv3ASIC_avg.png) |
![Average SecMatV3[FPGA] power traces](img/secmatv3FPGA_avg.png) |
| Differential trace for the first round transition of register LR | ![Differential trace for SecMatV1[ASIC] power traceAverage](img/secmatv1ASIC_leak.png) |
![Differential trace for SecMatV3[ASIC] power traceAverage](img/secmatv3ASIC_leak.png) |
![Differential trace for SecMatV3[FPGA] power traceAverage](img/secmatv3FPGA_leak.png) |
Dumping the Contest Database in a Directory
To download directly the zip'ed campaigns of measurement, use those links (warning: each file is about one gigabyte large):
- secmatv1_2006_04_0809.zip (4 Gbytes, in 4 parts: download )
- secmatv3_20070924_des.zip (1 Gbyte, in 1 part)
- secmatv3_20071219_des.zip (6 Gbytes, in 6 parts: download )