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In this paper we introduced countermeasures against side-channel attacks in the shared memory of TrustZone. We proposed zero-contention cache memory or policy between REE and TEE to prevent from TruSpy attacks in TrustZone. And we suggested…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Na-Young Ahn , Dong Hoon Lee

Persistent Fault Attack (PFA) is a recently proposed Fault Attack (FA) method in CHES 2018. It is able to recover full AES secret key in the Single-Byte-Fault scenario. It is demonstrated that classical FA countermeasures, such as Dual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Yukun Cheng , Mengce Zheng , Fan Huang , Jiajia Zhang , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

Caches are widely used to improve performance in modern processors. By carefully evicting cache lines and identifying cache hit/miss time, contention-based cache timing channel attacks can be orchestrated to leak information from the victim…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Tuo Li , Sri Parameswaran

Evolving attacks on the vulnerabilities of the computing systems demand novel defense strategies to keep pace with newer attacks. This report discusses previous works on side-channel attacks (SCAs) and defenses for cache-targeted and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Abhijitt Dhavlle

Side-channel attacks impose a serious threat to cryptographic algorithms, including widely employed ones, such as AES and RSA. These attacks take advantage of the algorithm implementation in hardware or software to extract secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Rodothea Myrsini Tsoupidi , Roberto Castañeda Lozano , Elena Troubitsyna , Panagiotis Papadimitratos

The last level cache is vulnerable to timing based side channel attacks because it is shared by the attacker and the victim processes even if they are located on different cores. These timing attacks evict the victim cache lines using small…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Kartik Ramkrishnan , Antonia Zhai , Stephen McCamant , Pen Chung Yew

A popular run-time attack technique is to compromise the control-flow integrity of a program by modifying function return addresses on the stack. So far, shadow stacks have proven to be essential for comprehensively preventing return…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Hans Liljestrand , Thomas Nyman , Lachlan J. Gunn , Jan-Erik Ekberg , N. Asokan

We systematize software side-channel attacks with a focus on vulnerabilities and countermeasures in the cryptographic implementations. Particularly, we survey past research literature to categorize vulnerable implementations, and identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Tianwei Zhang , Jun Jiang , Yinqian Zhang

Many cache designs have been proposed to guard against contention-based side-channel attacks. One well-known type of cache is the randomized remapping cache. Many randomized remapping caches provide fixed or over protection, which leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xiao Liu , Mark Zwolinski , Basel Halak

Security issues are the most challenging problems in cloud computing environments as an emerging technology. Regarding to this importance, an efficient and reliable user authentication and data protection model has been presented in this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-08-10 Mohammad Ahmadi , Mostafa Vali , Farez Moghaddam , Aida Hakemi , Kasra Madadipouya

Contemporary computing employs cache hierarchy to fill the speed gap between processors and main memories. In order to optimise system performance, Last Level Caches(LLC) are shared among all the cores. Cache sharing has made them an…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jaspinder Kaur , Shirshendu Das

Real-time cyber-physical systems depend on deterministic task execution to guarantee safety and correctness. Unfortunately, this determinism can unintentionally expose timing information that enables adversaries to infer task execution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Arkaprava Sain , Sunandan Adhikary , Soumyajit Dey

The timing characteristics of cache, a high-speed storage between the fast CPU and the slowmemory, may reveal sensitive information of a program, thus allowing an adversary to conduct side-channel attacks. Existing methods for detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shengjian Guo , Meng Wu , Chao Wang

This work focuses on eliminating timing-side channels in real-time safety-critical cyber-physical network protocols like Controller Area Networks (CAN). Automotive Electronic Control Units (ECUs) implement predictable scheduling decisions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Sunandan Adhikary , Ipsita Koley , Arkaprava Sain , Soumyadeep das , Shuvam Saha , Soumyajit Dey

For a distributed last-level cache (LLC) in a large multicore chip, the access time to one LLC bank can significantly differ from that to another due to the difference in physical distance. In this paper, we successfully demonstrated a new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Farabi Mahmud , Sungkeun Kim , Harpreet Singh Chawla , Chia-Che Tsai , Eun Jung Kim , Abdullah Muzahid

With the recent proliferation of distributed systems and networking, remote authentication has become a crucial task in many networking applications. Various schemes have been proposed so far for the two-party remote authentication;…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Al-Sakib Khan Pathan , Choong Seon Hong

Hardware Trojans have drawn the attention of academia, industry and government agencies. Effective detection mechanisms and countermeasures against such malicious designs can only be developed when there is a deep understanding of how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Samaneh Ghandali , Thorben Moos , Amir Moradi , Christof Paar

With the advancement of technology in the last few decades, leading to the widespread availability of miniaturized sensors and internet-connected things (IoT), security of electronic devices has become a top priority. Side-channel attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Debayan Das , Shovan Maity , Saad Bin Nasir , Santosh Ghosh , Arijit Raychowdhury , Shreyas Sen

The gamut of todays internet-connected embedded devices has led to increased concerns regarding the security and confidentiality of data. Most internet-connected embedded devices employ mathematically secure cryptographic algorithms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Archisman Ghosh

Embedded software is developed under the assumption that hardware execution is always correct. Fault attacks break and exploit that assumption. Through the careful introduction of targeted faults, an adversary modifies the control-flow or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Bilgiday Yuce , Patrick Schaumont , Marc Witteman