Side-channel attack in internet of things: A survey

Abstract

To ensure security for data exchange is a challenges task in Internet of Things (IoT). Thus, research on side-channel attack is a major issue in this domain. Side-channel attack is based on side-channel information. This attack is of either ciphertext only attack or plaintext only attack or chosen plaintext attack. Moreover, since this attack is cheap to perform, it requires little computing power and is relatively easy to perform. So, this attack is growing day by day. Therefore, security is not an easy task to establish in a given system. The motive behind this paper is to present a comprehensive survey on different types of IoT attack with special focus on side-channel attack. In addition, a list of research issues and open challenges are also highlighted in the paper.