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In-memory computing (IMC) systems have great potential for accelerating data-intensive tasks such as deep neural networks (DNNs). As DNN models are generally highly proprietary, the neural network architectures become valuable targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ziyu Wang , Fan-hsuan Meng , Yongmo Park , Jason K. Eshraghian , Wei D. Lu

Side-channel attacks (SCAs), which infer secret information (for example secret keys) by exploiting information that leaks from the implementation (such as power consumption), have been shown to be a non-negligible threat to modern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shan Jin , Minghua Xu , Yiwei Cai

Side-channel analysis (SCA) can obtain information related to the secret key by exploiting leakages produced by the device. Researchers recently found that neural networks (NNs) can execute a powerful profiling SCA, even on targets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Fiske Schijlen , Lichao Wu , Luca Mariot

Side-channel attacks on memory (SCAM) exploit unintended data leaks from memory subsystems to infer sensitive information, posing significant threats to system security. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in memory access patterns, cache…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 MD Mahady Hassan , Shanto Roy , Reza Rahaeimehr

Side-channel attacks are a security exploit that take advantage of information leakage. They use measurement and analysis of physical parameters to reverse engineer and extract secrets from a system. Power analysis attacks in particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yun Chen , Ali Hajiabadi , Romain Poussier , Andreas Diavastos , Shivam Bhasin , Trevor E. Carlson

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are energy-efficient counterparts of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) with high biological plausibility, as information is transmitted through temporal spiking patterns. The core element of an SNN is the spiking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Abdullah Arafat Miah , Kevin Vu , Yu Bi

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

During the last decade, Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have progressively been integrated on all types of platforms, from data centers to embedded systems including low-power processors and, recently, FPGAs. Neural Networks (NN) are expected to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maria Méndez Real , Rubén Salvador

Numerous previous works have studied deep learning algorithms applied in the context of side-channel attacks, which demonstrated the ability to perform successful key recoveries. These studies show that modern cryptographic devices are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruizhe Gu , Ping Wang , Mengce Zheng , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

As training artificial intelligence (AI) models is a lengthy and hence costly process, leakage of such a model's internal parameters is highly undesirable. In the case of AI accelerators, side-channel information leakage opens up the threat…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Andrija Nešković , Saleh Mulhem , Alexander Treff , Rainer Buchty , Thomas Eisenbarth , Mladen Berekovic

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm, which evolved in recent years to address the weaknesses in traditional networks. The significant feature of the SDN, which is achieved by disassociating the control plane from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Mahmoud Said Elsayed , Nhien-An Le-Khac , Soumyabrata Dev , Anca Delia Jurcut

This paper proposes the use of iterative transfer learning applied to deep learning models for side-channel attacks. Currently, most of the side-channel attack methods train a model for each individual byte, without considering the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Tun-Chieh Lou , Chung-Che Wang , Jyh-Shing Roger Jang , Henian Li , Lang Lin , Norman Chang

Recently, many profiling side-channel attacks based on Machine Learning and Deep Learning have been proposed. Most of them focus on reducing the number of traces required for successful attacks by optimizing the modeling algorithms. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Ping Wang , Ping Chen , Zhimin Luo , Gaofeng Dong , Mengce Zheng , Nenghai Yu , Honggang Hu

Most electronic devices utilize mechanical keyboards to receive inputs, including sensitive information such as authentication credentials, personal and private data, emails, plans, etc. However, these systems are susceptible to acoustic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Alireza Taheritajar , Zahra Mahmoudpour Harris , Reza Rahaeimehr

With the rapidly growing number of security-sensitive systems that use voice as the primary input, it becomes increasingly important to address these systems' potential vulnerability to replay attacks. Previous efforts to address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yuan Gong , Jian Yang , Christian Poellabauer

Deep neural networks (DNNs) provide high image classification accuracy, but experience significant performance degradation when perturbation from various sources are present in the input. The lack of resilience to input perturbations makes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-13 Xueyuan She , Yun Long , Daehyun Kim , Saibal Mukhopadhyay

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

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are widely used in various domains, including image recognition, medical diagnosis and autonomous driving. Recent advances in dataflow-based CNN accelerators have enabled CNN inference in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Hansika Weerasena , Prabhat Mishra

The confidentiality of trained AI models on edge devices is at risk from side-channel attacks exploiting power and electromagnetic emissions. This paper proposes a novel training methodology to enhance resilience against such threats by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Anuj Dubey , Aydin Aysu

Deep learning is a powerful approach with good performance on many different tasks. However, these models often require massive computational resources. It is a worrying trend that we increasingly need models that work well on more complex…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Le-Minh Nguyen