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As our professional, social, and financial existences become increasingly digitized and as our government, healthcare, and military infrastructures rely more on computer technologies, they present larger and more lucrative targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Ethan M. Rudd , Andras Rozsa , Manuel Günther , Terrance E. Boult

Embedded systems in safety-critical environments are continuously required to deliver more performance and functionality, while expected to provide verified safety guarantees. Nonetheless, platform-wide software verification (required for…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Fardin Abdi , Renato Mancuso , Rohan Tabish , Marco Caccamo

To counter man-at-the-end attacks such as reverse engineering and tampering, software is often protected with techniques that require support modules to be linked into the application. It is well-known, however, that attackers can exploit…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Jens Van den Broeck , Bart Coppens , Bjorn De Sutter

Physiological computing uses human physiological data as system inputs in real time. It includes, or significantly overlaps with, brain-computer interfaces, affective computing, adaptive automation, health informatics, and physiological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Dongrui Wu , Jiaxin Xu , Weili Fang , Yi Zhang , Liuqing Yang , Xiaodong Xu , Hanbin Luo , Xiang Yu

Modern software systems are developed in diverse programming languages and often harbor critical vulnerabilities that attackers can exploit to compromise security. These vulnerabilities have been actively targeted in real-world attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Zhuoyun Qian , Fangtian Zhong , Qin Hu , Yili Jiang , Jiaqi Huang , Mengfei Ren , Jiguo Yu

With the rapid advancement of information technology, the complexity of applications continues to increase, and the cybersecurity challenges we face are also escalating. This paper aims to investigate the methods and practices of system…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Chunyi Zhang , Jin Zeng , Xiaoqi Li

In this paper we study the existing CRT-RSA countermeasures against fault-injection at-tacks. In an attempt to classify them we get to achieve deep understanding of how they work. We show that the many countermeasures that we study (and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-12-02 Pablo Rauzy , Sylvain Guilley

The rise of hardware-level security threats, such as side-channel attacks, hardware Trojans, and firmware vulnerabilities, demands advanced detection mechanisms that are more intelligent and adaptive. Traditional methods often fall short in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Banafsheh Saber Latibari , Najmeh Nazari , Avesta Sasan , Houman Homayoun , Pratik Satam , Soheil Salehi , Hossein Sayadi

A potential vulnerability for integrated circuits (ICs) is the insertion of hardware trojans (HTs) during manufacturing. Understanding the practicability of such an attack can lead to appropriate measures for mitigating it. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Alexander Hepp , Tiago Perez , Samuel Pagliarini , Georg Sigl

Embedded software used in industrial systems frequently relies on data that ensures the correct and efficient operation of these systems. Thus, companies invest considerable resources in fine-tuning this data, making it their valuable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Bernhard Fischer , Daniel Dorfmeister , Flavio Ferrarotti , Manuel Penz , Michael Kargl , Martina Zeinzinger , Florian Eibensteiner

The development of quantum computers has been advancing rapidly in recent years. As quantum computers become more widely accessible, potentially malicious users could try to execute their code on the machines to leak information from other…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Jerry Tan , Chuanqi Xu , Theodoros Trochatos , Jakub Szefer

Fault injection attacks can cause errors in software for malicious purposes. Oftentimes, vulnerable points of a program are detected after its development. It is therefore critical for the user of the program to be able to apply last-minute…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pantea Kiaei , Cees-Bart Breunesse , Mohsen Ahmadi , Patrick Schaumont , Jasper van Woudenberg

Fault injection attacks represent an effective threat to embedded systems. Recently, Laurent et al. have reported that fault injection attacks can leverage faults inside the microarchitecture. However, state-of-the-art counter-measures,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Thomas Chamelot , Damien Couroussé , Karine Heydemann

Embedded Systems (ES) development has been historically focused on functionality rather than security, and today it still applies in many sectors and applications. However, there is an increasing number of security threats over ES, and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-13 Ángel Longueira-Romero , Rosa Iglesias , David Gonzalez , Iñaki Garitano

The identification of safe faults (i.e., faults which are guaranteed not to produce any failure) in an electronic system is a crucial step when analyzing its dependability and its test plan development. Unfortunately, safe fault…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-25 C. C. Gursoy , M. Jenihhin , A. S. Oyeniran , D. Piumatti , J. Raik , M. Sonza Reorda , R. Ubar

Man-at-the-end (MATE) attackers have full control over the system on which the attacked software runs, and try to break the confidentiality or integrity of assets embedded in the software. Both companies and malware authors want to prevent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Bjorn De Sutter , Sebastian Schrittwieser , Bart Coppens , Patrick Kochberger

With the large-scale integration and use of neural network models, especially in critical embedded systems, their security assessment to guarantee their reliability is becoming an urgent need. More particularly, models deployed in embedded…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Clement Gaine , Pierre-Alain Moellic , Olivier Potin , Jean-Max Dutertre

The correct use of a Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) interface in embedded applications is crucial to prevent malfunctions, crashes, or even hardware damage. Software model checking has been successfully applied to check interface…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Manuel Bentele , Onur Altinordu , Jan Körner , Andreas Podelski , Axel Sikora

Increasing system-on-chip (SoC) heterogeneity, deep hardware/software integration, and the proliferation of third-party intellectual property (IP) have brought security validation to the forefront of semiconductor design. While simulation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Tanvir Rahman , Shuvagata Saha , Ahmed Y. Alhurubi , Sujan Kumar Saha , Farimah Farahmandi , Mark Tehranipoor

Evaluating the effectiveness of software protection is crucial for selecting the most effective methods to safeguard assets within software applications. Obfuscation involves techniques that deliberately modify software to make it more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Leonardo Regano , Daniele Canavese , Cataldo Basile , Marco Torchiano