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Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) hardware, such as microprocessors, are widely adopted in system design due to their ability to reduce development time and cost compared to custom solutions. However, supply chain entities involved in the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Mahmudul Hasan , Sudipta Paria , Swarup Bhunia , Tamzidul Hoque

Due to cost benefits, supply chains of integrated circuits (ICs) are largely outsourced nowadays. However, passing ICs through various third-party providers gives rise to many security threats, like piracy of IC intellectual property or…

Semiconductor supply chain is increasingly getting exposed to variety of security attacks such as Trojan insertion, cloning, counterfeiting, reverse engineering (RE), piracy of Intellectual Property (IP) or Integrated Circuit (IC) and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Anirudh Iyengar , Swaroop Ghosh

The security of modern electronic devices relies on secret keys stored on secure hardware modules as the root-of-trust (RoT). Extracting those keys would break the security of the entire system. As shown before, sophisticated side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Thilo Krachenfels , Tuba Kiyan , Shahin Tajik , Jean-Pierre Seifert

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

Although cryptographic algorithms may be mathematically secure, it is often possible to leak secret information from the implementation of the algorithms. Timing and power side-channel vulnerabilities are some of the most widely considered…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ferhat Erata , Ruzica Piskac , Victor Mateu , Jakub Szefer

The dependence of power-consumption on the processed data is a known vulnerability of CMOS circuits, resulting in side channels which can be exploited by power-based side channel attacks (SCAs). These attacks can extract sensitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ali Asghar , Andreas Becher , Daniel Ziener

Side-channel attacks have empowered bypassing of cryptographic components in circuits. Power side-channel (PSC) attacks have received particular traction, owing to their non-invasiveness and proven effectiveness. Aside from prior art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Johann Knechtel , Satwik Patnaik , Mohammed Nabeel , Mohammed Ashraf , Yogesh S. Chauhan , Jörg Henkel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Hussam Amrouch

Attacks based on side-channel analysis (SCA) pose a severe security threat to modern computing platforms, further exacerbated on IoT devices by their pervasiveness and handling of private and critical data. Designing SCA-resistant computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Davide Zoni , Andrea Galimberti , Davide Galli

Always-on hardware Trojans pose a serious challenge to integrated circuit trust, as they remain active during normal operation and are difficult to detect in post-deployment settings without trusted golden references. This paper presents a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Mahsa Tahghigh , Hassan Salmani

Globalization in the semiconductor industry enables fabless design houses to reduce their costs, save time, and make use of newer technologies. However, the offshoring of Integrated Circuit (IC) fabrication has negative sides, including…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Mohammad Eslami , Tara Ghasempouri , Samuel Pagliarini

Due to the ever-growing demands for electronic chips in different sectors the semiconductor companies have been mandated to offshore their manufacturing processes. This unwanted matter has made security and trustworthiness of their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Md Mahfuz Al Hasan , Mohammad Tahsin Mostafiz , Thomas An Le , Jake Julia , Nidish Vashistha , Shayan Taheri , Navid Asadizanjani

In this paper, we will demonstrate Hardware Trojan Attacks on four different digital designs implemented on FPGA. The hardware trojan is activated based on special logical and reduction-based operations on vectors which makes the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Mayukhmali Das , Sounak Dutta , Sayan Chatterjee

Side-channel attacks pose significant challenges to the security of embedded systems, often allowing attackers to circumvent encryption algorithms in minutes compared to the trillions of years required for brute-force attacks. To mitigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Gabriel Klasson Landin , Truls Jilborg

Side Channel Analysis (SCA) presents a clear threat to privacy and security in modern computing systems. The vast majority of communications are secured through cryptographic algorithms. These algorithms are often provably-secure from a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Max Panoff , Honggang Yu , Haoqi Shan , Yier Jin

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

Cybersecurity continues to be a difficult issue for society especially as the number of networked systems grows. Techniques to protect these systems range from rules-based to artificial intelligence-based intrusion detection systems and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Paul Maxwell , David Niblick , Daniel C. Ruiz

Side-channel attacks, which are capable of breaking secrecy via side-channel information, pose a growing threat to the implementation of cryptographic algorithms. Masking is an effective countermeasure against side-channel attacks by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Pengfei Gao , Hongyi Xie , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

Side-channel attacks are efficient attacks against cryptographic devices. They use only quantities observable from outside, such as the duration and the power consumption. Attacks against synchronous devices using electric observations are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-24 Philippe Hoogvorst , Sylvain Guilley , Sumanta Chaudhuri , Jean-Luc Danger , Taha Beyrouthy , Laurent Fesquet

With the globalization of the semiconductor manufacturing process, electronic devices are powerless against malicious modification of hardware in the supply chain. The ever-increasing threat of hardware Trojan attacks against integrated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Kyle Worley , Md Tauhidur Rahman