paper

Cumulant Expansion of Mutual Information for Quantifying Leakage of a Protected Secret

arXiv:2102.02468

Abstract

The information leakage of a cryptographic implementation with a given degree of protection is evaluated in a typical situation when the signal-to-noise ratio is small. This is solved by expanding Kullback-Leibler divergence, entropy, and mutual information in terms of moments/cumulants.