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Side channel attacks are a major class of attacks to crypto-systems. Attackers collect and analyze timing behavior, I/O data, or power consumption in these systems to undermine their effectiveness in protecting sensitive information. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Hossein Hosseinzadeh , Mihailo Isakov , Mostafa Darabi , Ahmad Patooghy , Michel A. Kinsy

Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is one of the most widely used symmetric cipher for the confidentiality of data. Also it is used for other security services, viz. integrity, authentication and key establishment. However, recently,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Ankush Soni , Sanjay K. Sahay , Parit Mehta

GPUs are increasingly being used in security applications, especially for accelerating encryption/decryption. While GPUs are an attractive platform in terms of performance, the security of these devices raises a number of concerns. One…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Elmira Karimi , Yunsi Fei , David Kaeli

AES, Advanced Encryption Standard, can be considered the most widely used modern symmetric key encryption standard. To encrypt/decrypt a file using the AES algorithm, the file must undergo a set of complex computational steps. Therefore a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-03-31 A. Barnes , R. Fernando , K. Mettananda , R. G. Ragel

Timing side channels have been used to extract cryptographic keys and sensitive documents, even from trusted enclaves. In this paper, we focus on cache side channels created by access to shared code or data in the memory hierarchy. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Divya Ojha , Sandhya Dwarkadas

Caches are used to reduce the speed differential between the CPU and memory to improve the performance of modern processors. However, attackers can use contention-based cache timing attacks to steal sensitive information from victim…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Quancheng Wang , Xige Zhang , Han Wang , Yuzhe Gu , Ming Tang

Timing-based side and covert channels in processor caches continue to be a threat to modern computers. This work shows for the first time a systematic, large-scale analysis of Arm devices and the detailed results of attacks the processors…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Shuwen Deng , Nikolay Matyunin , Wenjie Xiong , Stefan Katzenbeisser , Jakub Szefer

The implementation of cryptographic primitives in integrated circuits (ICs) continues to increase over the years due to the recent advancement of semiconductor manufacturing and reduction of cost per transistors. The hardware implementation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Ayush Jain , Ujjwal Guin

Numerous previous works have studied deep learning algorithms applied in the context of side-channel attacks, which demonstrated the ability to perform successful key recoveries. These studies show that modern cryptographic devices are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruizhe Gu , Ping Wang , Mengce Zheng , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

The study of sending and receiving secret messages is called cryptography. Generally, senders and receivers are unaware about the process of encryption and decryption. Hence, encryption plays an important role in data communication and data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ziaur Rahaman , Anjela Diana Corraya , Mousumi Akter Sumi , Ali Newaz Bahar

In this paper, we show that the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptosystem can be used as an error-correcting code to obtain reliability over noisy communication and data systems. Moreover, we characterize a family of computational…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Alejandro Cohen , Rafael G. L. D'Oliveira , Ken R. Duffy , Jongchan Woo , Muriel Médard

This work presents a new tool to verify the correctness of cryptographic implementations with respect to cache attacks. Our methodology discovers vulnerabilities that are hard to find with other techniques, observed as exploitable leakage.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Gorka Irazoqui , Kai Cong , Xiaofei Guo , Hareesh Khattri , Arun Kanuparthi , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar

Hardware caches are essential performance optimization features in modern processors to reduce the effective memory access time. Unfortunately, they are also the prime targets for attacks on computer processors because they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Guangyuan Hu , Ruby B. Lee

We present a new hardware-agnostic side-channel attack that targets one of the most fundamental software caches in modern computer systems: the operating system page cache. The page cache is a pure software cache that contains all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Daniel Gruss , Erik Kraft , Trishita Tiwari , Michael Schwarz , Ari Trachtenberg , Jason Hennessey , Alex Ionescu , Anders Fogh

Side-channel attacks on memory (SCAM) exploit unintended data leaks from memory subsystems to infer sensitive information, posing significant threats to system security. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in memory access patterns, cache…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 MD Mahady Hassan , Shanto Roy , Reza Rahaeimehr

With the extraordinary maturity of data exchange in network environments and increasing the attackers capabilities, information security has become the most important process for data storage and communication. In order to provide such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Omer K. Jasim Mohammad , Safia Abbas , El-Sayed M. El-Horbaty , Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem

In this paper we are proposing an algorithm which uses AES technique of 128/192/256 bit cipher key in encryption and decryption of data. AES provides high security as compared to other encryption techniques along with RSA. Cloud computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-03-06 Sugata Sanyal , Parthasarathy P. Iyer

Power side-channel attacks, which can deduce secret data via statistical analysis, have become a serious threat. Masking is an effective countermeasure for reducing the statistical dependence between secret data and side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Pengfei Gao , Hongyi Xie , Jun Zhang , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

With the maturation of quantum computing technology, many cryptographic methods are gradually facing threats from quantum computing. Although the Grover algorithm can accelerate search speeds, current research indicates that the Advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Abel C. H. Chen

Cache attacks pose a threat to any code whose execution flow or memory accesses depend on sensitive information. Especially in public clouds, where caches are shared across several tenants, cache attacks remain an unsolved problem. Cache…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-07 Samira Briongos , Gorka Irazoqui , Pedro Malagón , Thomas Eisenbarth