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Power side-channel attacks (SCAs) have become a major concern to the security community due to their non-invasive feature, low-cost, and effectiveness in extracting secret information from hardware implementation of cryto algorithms.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Miao , He , Jungmin Park , Adib Nahiyan , Apostol Vassilev , Yier Jin , Mark Tehranipoor

Due to the advancing development of quantum computers, practical attacks on conventional public-key cryptography may become feasible in the next few decades. To address this risk, post-quantum schemes that are secure against quantum attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Soundes Marzougui , Nils Wisiol , Patrick Gersch , Juliane Krämer , Jean-Pierre Seifert

A trusted execution environment (TEE) such as Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX) runs a remote attestation to prove to a data owner the integrity of the initial state of an enclave, including the program to operate on her data. For this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Weijie Liu , Wenhao Wang , Xiaofeng Wang , Xiaozhu Meng , Yaosong Lu , Hongbo Chen , Xinyu Wang , Qingtao Shen , Kai Chen , Haixu Tang , Yi Chen , Luyi Xing

In-storage computing with modern solid-state drives (SSDs) enables developers to offload programs from the host to the SSD. It has been proven to be an effective approach to alleviate the I/O bottleneck. To facilitate in-storage computing,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Luyi Kang , Yuqi Xue , Weiwei Jia , Xiaohao Wang , Jongryool Kim , Changhwan Youn , Myeong Joon Kang , Hyung Jin Lim , Bruce Jacob , Jian Huang

Intel(r) Software Guard Extensions (SGX) was originally released on client platforms and later extended to single socket server platforms. As developers have become familiar with the capabilities of the technology, the applicability of this…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Simon Johnson , Raghunandan Makaram , Amy Santoni , Vinnie Scarlata

Most current approaches for protecting privacy in machine learning (ML) assume that models exist in a vacuum. Yet, in reality, these models are part of larger systems that include components for training data filtering, output monitoring,…

Large Language Models (LLMs) that can be deployed locally have recently gained popularity for privacy-sensitive tasks, with companies such as Meta, Google, and Intel playing significant roles in their development. However, the security of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Zibo Gao , Junjie Hu , Feng Guo , Yixin Zhang , Yinglong Han , Siyuan Liu , Haiyang Li , Zhiqiang Lv

Process-based confidential computing enclaves such as Intel SGX can be used to protect the confidentiality and integrity of workloads, without the overhead of virtualisation. However, they introduce a notable performance overhead,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Jakob Svenningsson , Nicolae Paladi , Arash Vahidi

Large language models (LLMs) possess extensive knowledge and question-answering capabilities, having been widely deployed in privacy-sensitive domains like finance and medical consultation. During LLM inferences, cache-sharing methods are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xinyao Zheng , Husheng Han , Shangyi Shi , Qiyan Fang , Zidong Du , Xing Hu , Qi Guo

Stepping-stone intrusions (SSIs) are a prevalent network evasion technique in which attackers route sessions through chains of compromised intermediate hosts to obscure their origin. Effective SSI detection requires correlating the incoming…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Nate Mathews , Nicholas Hopper , Matthew Wright

Timing side-channel attacks exploit secret-dependent execution time to fully or partially recover secrets of cryptographic implementations, posing a severe threat to software security. Constant-time programming discipline is an effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Luwei Cai , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

Modern intrusion detection systems (IDS) leverage graph neural networks (GNNs) to detect malicious activity in system provenance data, but their decisions often remain a black box to analysts. This paper presents a comprehensive XAI…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Devang Dhanuka , Nidhi Rastogi

The widening availability of hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) has been accelerating the adaptation of new applications using TEEs. Recent studies showed that a cloud application consists of multiple distributed software…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Joongun Park , Seunghyo Kang , Sanghyeon Lee , Taehoon Kim , Jongse Park , Youngjin Kwon , Jaehyuk Huh

We present \texttt{secml}, an open-source Python library for secure and explainable machine learning. It implements the most popular attacks against machine learning, including test-time evasion attacks to generate adversarial examples…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-16 Maura Pintor , Luca Demetrio , Angelo Sotgiu , Marco Melis , Ambra Demontis , Battista Biggio

With the development of e-commerce, ssl protocol is more and more widely applied to various network services. It is one of key technologies to keep user's data in secure transmission via internet. This document majorly focuses on "SSLStrip"…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-18 Fenil Kavathia , Ajay Modi

This paper presents a novel singletrace sidechannel attack on FALCON a latticebased postquantum digital signature protocol recently approved for standardization by NIST We target the discrete Gaussian sampling operation within FALCONs key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Jinyi Qiu , Aydin Aysu

Accelerators used for machine learning (ML) inference provide great performance benefits over CPUs. Securing confidential model in inference against off-chip side-channel attacks is critical in harnessing the performance advantage in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sarbartha Banerjee , Shijia Wei , Prakash Ramrakhyani , Mohit Tiwari

Self-supervised learning (SSL) is a prevalent approach for encoding data representations. Using a pre-trained SSL image encoder and subsequently training a downstream classifier, impressive performance can be achieved on various tasks with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Mengxin Zheng , Jiaqi Xue , Zihao Wang , Xun Chen , Qian Lou , Lei Jiang , Xiaofeng Wang

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) offer hardware-assisted means to protect code and data. However, as shown in numerous results over the years, attackers can use side-channels to leak data access patterns and even single-step the code.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jan Wichelmann , Anja Rabich , Anna P"atschke , Thomas Eisenbarth

Recent attacks have broken process isolation by exploiting microarchitectural side channels that allow indirect access to shared microarchitectural state. Enclaves strengthen the process abstraction to restore isolation guarantees. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Thomas Bourgeat , Ilia Lebedev , Andrew Wright , Sizhuo Zhang , Arvind , Srinivas Devadas