Multilabel Deep Learning-Based Side-Channel Attack

Abstract

In recent years, deep learning methods make a big difference in side-channel attack (SCA) community especially in the profiled scenario. Multiclass classification method is the common way to complete such classification task. In this article, we propose a novel SCA method utilizing multilabel classification from bit-to-byte view. Accordingly, each leakage trace has eight labels when considering a byte. The experimental results on several datasets show that our multilabel classification method is efficient and even performs better in some situations compared with the original multiclass classification model while model complexity is much reduced. Besides, our multilabel model can be seen as ensemble of monobit models and we verify the ensemble effect experimentally.