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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

Side-channel attacks are important security challenges as they reveal sensitive information about on-chip activities. Among such attacks, the thermal side-channel has been shown to disclose the activities of key functional blocks and even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Dylan Stow , Russell Barnes , Eren Kurshan , Yuan Xie

Software development industries are increasingly adopting containers to enhance the scalability and flexibility of software applications. Security in containerized projects is a critical challenge that can lead to data breaches and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Maha Sroor , Rahul Mohanani , Ricardo Colomo-Palacios , Sandun Dasanayake , Tommi Mikkonen

While side-channel leakage is traditionally evaluated from a fabricated chip, it is more time-efficient and cost-effective to do so during the design phase of the chip. We present a methodology to rank the gates of a design according to…

This work presents a novel, black-box software-based countermeasure against physical attacks including power side-channel and fault-injection attacks. The approach uses the concept of random self-reducibility and self-correctness to add…

We propose a modification to the transpiler of a quantum computer to safeguard against side-channel attacks aimed at learning information about a quantum circuit. We demonstrate that if it is feasible to shield a specific subset of gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Jason T. LeGrow , Travis Morrison , Jamie Sikora , Nicolas Swanson

Quantum computing is a cutting-edge field of information technology that harnesses the principles of quantum mechanics to perform computations. It has major implications for the cyber security industry. Existing cyber protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Ummar Ahmed , Tuomo Sipola , Jari Hautamäki

Timing and cache side channels provide powerful attacks against many sensitive operations including cryptographic implementations. Existing defenses cannot protect against all classes of such attacks without incurring prohibitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Benjamin A. Braun , Suman Jana , Dan Boneh

Blockchain technology transformed the digital sphere by providing a transparent, secure, and decentralized platform for data security across a range of industries, including cryptocurrencies and supply chain management. Blockchain's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Bilash Saha , Md Mehedi Hasan , Nafisa Anjum , Sharaban Tahora , Aiasha Siddika , Hossain Shahriar

Software security visualization is an interdisciplinary field that combines the technical complexity of cybersecurity, including threat intelligence and compliance monitoring, with visual analytics, transforming complex security data into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ishara Devendra , Chaman Wijesiriwardana , Prasad Wimalaratne

Vulnerability detection plays a key role in secure software development. There are many different vulnerability detection tools and techniques to choose from, and insufficient information on which vulnerability detection techniques to use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Sarah Elder

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

Side-channel analysis (SCA) poses a real-world threat by exploiting unintentional physical signals to extract secret information from secure devices. Evaluation labs also use the same techniques to certify device security. In recent years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sengim Karayalçin , Marina Krček , Stjepan Picek

Encryption schemes attempt to provide a means for entities to communicate confidentially over a public channel. Such schemes have been studied for centuries, and their use has become widespread. However, developments in the area of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-29 Michael Stephen Brown

Cryptographic API misuses, such as exposed secrets, predictable random numbers, and vulnerable certificate verification, seriously threaten software security. The vision of automatically screening cryptographic API calls in massive-sized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Sazzadur Rahaman , Ya Xiao , Sharmin Afrose , Fahad Shaon , Ke Tian , Miles Frantz , Danfeng , Yao , Murat Kantarcioglu

A major security threat to an integrated circuit (IC) design is the Hardware Trojan attack which is a malicious modification of the design. Previously several papers have investigated into side-channel analysis to detect the presence of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Samir R Katte , Keith E Fernandez

Malware constitutes a major global risk affecting millions of users each year. Standard algorithms in detection systems perform insufficiently when dealing with malware passed through obfuscation tools. We illustrate this studying in detail…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Alberto Redondo , David Rios Insua

Side-channel attacks that leak sensitive information through a computing device's interaction with its physical environment have proven to be a severe threat to devices' security, particularly when adversaries have unfettered physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ileana Buhan , Lejla Batina , Yuval Yarom , Patrick Schaumont

Acoustic side-channel attacks on keyboards can bypass security measures in many systems that use keyboards as one of the input devices. These attacks aim to reveal users' sensitive information by targeting the sounds made by their keyboards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Alireza Taheritajar , Reza Rahaeimehr

Smart contracts are programs that execute transactions involving independent parties and cryptocurrencies. As programs, smart contracts are susceptible to a wide range of errors and vulnerabilities. Such vulnerabilities can result in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Sundas Munir , Walid Taha