[tvla] Enable passing lists of selected rounds/bytes for specific AES

Previously, we could only:
- compute all rounds and all bytes
- select individual rounds but all bytes and vice versa
- select one round and one byte

This commit enables passing a list of bytes and rounds. All
combinations of the combined lists are then evaluated, e.g.
--round-select 0 --round-select 1 --byte-select 0 --byte-select 15
will evaluate Bytes 0 and 15 in both Round 0 and Round 1, i.e., there
will be for tests.

This is helps reducing the memory consumption and compute load if only
few rounds or bytes need to be analyzed as well as for CI.

Signed-off-by: Pirmin Vogel <[email protected]>

analysis/configs/tvla_cfg_aes_specific_byte0_rnd0.yaml

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ trace_end: null
 leakage_file: null
 save_to_disk: null
 save_to_disk_ttest: null
-round_select: 0
-byte_select: 0
+round_select: [0]
+byte_select: [0]
 input_histogram_file: null
 output_histogram_file: null
 number_of_steps: 1

analysis/tvla.py

@@ -261,14 +261,14 @@ def run_tvla(ctx: typer.Context):
         rnd_list = [0]
         byte_list = [0]
     else:
-        if cfg["round_select"] is None:
+        if not cfg["round_select"]:
             rnd_list = list(range(11))
         else:
-            rnd_list = [int(cfg["round_select"])]
-        if cfg["byte_select"] is None:
+            rnd_list = cfg["round_select"]
+        if not cfg["byte_select"]:
             byte_list = list(range(16))
         else:
-            byte_list = [int(cfg["byte_select"])]
+            byte_list = cfg["byte_select"]
     assert all(rnd >= 0 and rnd < 11 for rnd in rnd_list)
     assert all(byte >= 0 and byte < 16 for byte in byte_list)
 
@@ -1021,11 +1021,13 @@ def run_tvla(ctx: typer.Context):
 help_save_to_disk_ttest = inspect.cleandoc("""Save t-test files to disk. Ignored when
     ttset-step-file is not None. Default: """ + str(default_save_to_disk_ttest))
 help_round_select = inspect.cleandoc("""Index of the AES round for which the histograms are to be
-    computed: 0-10. If not provided, the histograms for all AES rounds are computed. Default:
-    """ + str(default_round_select))
+    computed: 0-10. If not provided, the histograms for all AES rounds are computed. To select
+    multiple but not all rounds, specify the argument once per selected round, e.g.,
+    "--round-select 0 --round-select 1". Default: """ + str(default_round_select))
 help_byte_select = inspect.cleandoc("""Index of the AES state byte for which the histograms are to
-    be computed: 0-15. If not provided, the histograms for all AES state bytes are computed.
-    Default: """ + str(default_byte_select))
+    be computed: 0-15. If not provided, the histograms for all AES state bytes are computed. To
+    select multiple but not all bytes, specify the argument once per selected byte, e.g.,
+    "--byte-select 0 --byte-select 1". Default: """ + str(default_byte_select))
 help_input_histogram_file = inspect.cleandoc("""Name of the input file containing the histograms.
     Not required. If both -input_histogram_file and -output_histogram_file are provided, the input
     file is appended with more data to produce the output file.
@@ -1066,8 +1068,8 @@ def main(ctx: typer.Context,
          leakage_file: str = typer.Option(None, help=help_leakage_file),
          save_to_disk: bool = typer.Option(None, help=help_save_to_disk),
          save_to_disk_ttest: bool = typer.Option(None, help=help_save_to_disk_ttest),
-         round_select: int = typer.Option(None, help=help_round_select),
-         byte_select: int = typer.Option(None, help=help_byte_select),
+         round_select: list[int] = typer.Option(None, help=help_round_select),
+         byte_select: list[int] = typer.Option(None, help=help_byte_select),
          input_histogram_file: str = typer.Option(None, help=help_input_histogram_file),
          output_histogram_file: str = typer.Option(None, help=help_output_histogram_file),
          number_of_steps: int = typer.Option(None, help=help_number_of_steps),
@@ -1098,11 +1100,15 @@ def main(ctx: typer.Context,
 
     # Overwrite options from CLI, if provided.
     for v in ['project_file', 'trace_file', 'trace_start', 'trace_end', 'leakage_file',
-              'save_to_disk', 'save_to_disk_ttest', 'round_select', 'byte_select',
+              'save_to_disk', 'save_to_disk_ttest',
               'input_histogram_file', 'output_histogram_file', 'number_of_steps',
               'ttest_step_file', 'plot_figures', 'general_test', 'mode', 'filter_traces']:
         run_cmd = f'''if {v} is not None: cfg[v] = {v}'''
         exec(run_cmd)
+    # The list arguments need to be handled a bit differently.
+    for v in ['round_select', 'byte_select']:
+        run_cmd = f'''if {v}: cfg[v] = {v}'''
+        exec(run_cmd)
 
     if not os.path.exists(str(script_dir) + "/tmp"):
         os.makedirs(str(script_dir) + "/tmp")

ci/cfg/ci_tvla_cfg_aes_specific_byte0_rnd0.yaml

@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ trace_end: null
 leakage_file: null
 save_to_disk: null
 save_to_disk_ttest: null
-round_select: 0
-byte_select: 0
+round_select: [0]
+byte_select: [0]
 input_histogram_file: null
 output_histogram_file: null
 number_of_steps: 1