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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

In this paper, we consider the service caching and the computing resource allocation in edge computing (EC) enabled networks. We introduce a random service caching design considering multiple types of latency sensitive services and the base…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Mingun Kim , Hewon Cho , Ying Cui , Jemin Lee

In the modern CPU architecture, enhancements such as the Line Fill Buffer (LFB) and Super Queue (SQ), which are designed to track pending cache requests, have significantly boosted performance. To exploit this structures, we deliberately…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Han Wang , Ming Tang , Ke Xu , Quancheng Wang

Mobile edge caching is a promising technology for the next-generation mobile networks to effectively offer service environment and cloud-storage capabilities at the edge of networks. By exploiting the storage and computing resources at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Jianbing Ni , Kuan Zhang , Athanasios V. Vasilakos

Content delivery success in wireless caching helper networks depends mainly on cache-based channel selection diversity and network interference. For given channel fading and network geometry, both channel selection diversity and network…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Seong Ho Chae , Wan Choi

The implementations of most hardened cryptographic libraries use defensive programming techniques for side-channel resistance. These techniques are usually specified as guidelines to developers on specific code patterns to use or avoid.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Moritz Schneider , Daniele Lain , Ivan Puddu , Nicolas Dutly , Srdjan Capkun

Defending against adversarial examples remains an open problem. A common belief is that randomness at inference increases the cost of finding adversarial inputs. An example of such a defense is to apply a random transformation to inputs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Yue Gao , Ilia Shumailov , Kassem Fawaz , Nicolas Papernot

Modern computer architectures rely on caches to reduce the latency gap between the CPU and main memory. While indispensable for performance, caches pose a serious threat to security because they leak information about memory access patterns…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Pablo Cañones , Boris Köpf , Jan Reineke

We study the well-known coded caching problem in an online learning framework, wherein requests arrive sequentially, and an online policy can update the cache contents based on the history of requests seen thus far. We introduce a caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Anupam Nayak , Kota Srinivas Reddy , Nikhil Karamchandani

Design of distributed caching mechanisms is considered as an active area of research due to its promising solution in reducing data load in the backhaul link of a cellular network. In this paper, the problem of distributed content caching…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-10-14 S. Krishnendu , B. N. Bharath , Navneet Garg , Vimal Bhatia , Tharmalingam Ratnarajah

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

As a strategy to further reduce the transmission pressure during the peak traffic times in wireless network, coded caching has been widely studied recently. And several coded caching schemes are constructed focusing on the two core problems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Minquan Cheng , Jing Jiang , Youzhi Yao

This paper considers the secretive coded caching problem with shared caches in which no user must have access to the files that it did not demand. In a shared cache network, the users are served by a smaller number of helper caches and each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Elizabath Peter , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

Adversarial attacks on deep-learning models pose a serious threat to their reliability and security. Existing defense mechanisms are narrow addressing a specific type of attack or being vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. We propose a new…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Mouna Rabhi , Roberto Di Pietro

Since 2016, multiple microarchitectural attacks have exploited an effect that is attributed to prefetching. These works observe that certain user-space operations can fetch kernel addresses into the cache. Fetching user-inaccessible data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Martin Schwarzl , Thomas Schuster , Michael Schwarz , Daniel Gruss

Semantic caching has emerged as a pivotal technique for scaling LLM applications, widely adopted by major providers including AWS and Microsoft. By utilizing semantic embedding vectors as cache keys, this mechanism effectively minimizes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Zhixiang Zhang , Zesen Liu , Yuchong Xie , Quanfeng Huang , Dongdong She

Parallelism has become extremely popular over the past decade, and there have been a lot of new parallel algorithms and software. The randomized work-stealing (RWS) scheduler plays a crucial role in this ecosystem. In this paper, we study…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yan Gu , Zachary Napier , Yihan Sun

Cache side-channel attacks exhibit severe threats to software security and privacy, especially for cryptosystems. In this paper, we propose CaType, a novel refinement type-based tool for detecting cache side channels in crypto software.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ke Jiang , Yuyan Bao , Shuai Wang , Zhibo Liu , Tianwei Zhang

RISC-V processors are becoming ubiquitous in critical applications, but their susceptibility to microarchitectural side-channel attacks is a serious concern. Detection of microarchitectural attacks in RISC-V is an emerging research topic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Muhammad Hassan , Maria Mushtaq , Jaan Raik , Tara Ghasempouri

Background and Objectives: Substitution-box (s-box) is one of the essential components to create confusion and nonlinear properties in cryptography. To strengthening a cipher against various attacks, including side channel attacks, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Behrooz Khadem , Saeed Rajavzade