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Due to developments in quantum computing, classical asymmetric cryptography is at risk of being breached. Consequently, new Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) primitives using lattices are studied. Another point of scrutiny is the resilience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Pierre-Augustin Berthet

Software Composition Analysis (SCA) has become pivotal in addressing vulnerabilities inherent in software project dependencies. In particular, reachability analysis is increasingly used in Open-Source Software (OSS) projects to identify…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Lyuye Zhang , Jian Zhang , Kaixuan Li , Chong Wang , Chengwei Liu , Jiahui Wu , Sen Chen , Yaowen Zheng , Yang Liu

Android is the most popular operating systems for smartphones and is also well-known for its flexibility and security. However, although it is overall considered very secure, there are still some vulnerabilities occasionally discovered that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Valerio Brussani

Physical side channels emerge from the relation between internal computation or data with observable physical parameters of a chip. Previous works mostly focus on properties related to current consumption such as power consumption. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Md Sadik Awal , Buddhipriya Gayanath , Md Tauhidur Rahman

With the exponential rise in the use of cloud services, smart devices, and IoT devices, advanced cyber attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and ubiquitous. Furthermore, the rapid evolution of computing architectures and memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jyotiprakash Mishra , Sanjay K. Sahay

Power side-channel (PSC) attacks are widely used in embedded microcontrollers, particularly in cryptographic applications, to extract sensitive information. However, expanding the applications of PSC attacks to broader security contexts in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Pouya Narimani , Meng Wang , Ulysse Planta , Ali Abbasi

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

Nowadays, cyberattacks are growing exponentially, causing havoc to Internet users. In particular, authentication attacks constitute the major attack vector where intruders impersonate legitimate users to maliciously access systems or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ang Kok Wee , Eyasu Getahun Chekole , Jianying Zhou

Side channel attacks have emerged as a serious threat to the security of both networked and embedded systems -- in particular through the implementations of cryptographic operations. Side channels can be difficult to model formally, but…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-12-16 Josef Svenningsson , David Sands

Side-channel attacks have become prominent attack surfaces in cyberspace. Attackers use the side information generated by the system while performing a task. Among the various side-channel attacks, cache side-channel attacks are leading as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ankit Pulkit , Smita Naval , Vijay Laxmi

Cache side-channel attacks extract secrets by examining how victim software accesses cache. To date, practical attacks on cryptosystems and media libraries are demonstrated under different scenarios, inferring secret keys and reconstructing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yuanyuan Yuan , Zhibo Liu , Shuai Wang

This paper presents a digital VLSI design flow to create secure, side-channel attack (SCA) resistant integrated circuits. The design flow starts from a normal design in a hardware description language such as VHDL or Verilog and provides a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Kris Tiri , Ingrid Verbauwhede

Evolving attacks on the vulnerabilities of the computing systems demand novel defense strategies to keep pace with newer attacks. This report discusses previous works on side-channel attacks (SCAs) and defenses for cache-targeted and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Abhijitt Dhavlle

The prevalent usage of open-source software (OSS) has led to an increased interest in resolving potential third-party security risks by fixing common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs). However, even with automated code analysis tools in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Frederik L. Dennig , Eren Cakmak , Henrik Plate , Daniel A. Keim

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

Due to the constant increase and versatility of IoT devices that should keep sensitive information private, Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) attacks on embedded devices are gaining visibility in the industrial field. The integration and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Unai Rioja , Lejla Batina , Jose Luis Flores , Igor Armendariz

Side-channel attacks allow an adversary to uncover secret program data by observing the behavior of a program with respect to a resource, such as execution time, consumed memory or response size. Side-channel vulnerabilities are difficult…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Shirin Nilizadeh , Yannic Noller , Corina S. Pasareanu

Cache side-channel attacks lead to severe security threats to the settings that a CPU is shared across users, e.g., in the cloud. The existing attacks rely on sensing the micro-architectural state changes made by victims, and this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Junpeng Wan , Yanxiang Bi , Zhe Zhou , Zhou Li

With the recent advancements in machine learning theory, many commercial embedded micro-processors use neural network models for a variety of signal processing applications. However, their associated side-channel security vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Saurav Maji , Utsav Banerjee , Anantha P. Chandrakasan

Detecting weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms is of utmost importance for designing secure information systems. The state-of-the-art soft analytical side-channel attack (SASCA) uses physical leakage information to make probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Thomas Wedenig , Rishub Nagpal , Gaëtan Cassiers , Stefan Mangard , Robert Peharz