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Designing an efficient protocol for avoiding the threat of recording based attack in presence of a powerful eavesdropper remains a challenge for more than two decades. During authentication, the absence of any secure link between the prover…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-31 Nilesh Chakraborty , Samrat Mondal

Existing tools to detect side-channel attacks on Intel SGX are grounded on the observation that attacks affect the performance of the victim application. As such, all detection tools monitor the potential victim and raise an alarm if the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Jianyu Jiang , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

Website fingerprinting (WF) attacks, which covertly monitor user communications to identify the web pages they visit, pose a serious threat to user privacy. Existing WF defenses attempt to reduce attack accuracy by disrupting traffic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Siyuan Liang , Jiajun Gong , Tianmeng Fang , Aishan Liu , Tao Wang , Xiaochun Cao , Dacheng Tao , Ee-Chien Chang

Intel Software Guard Extension (SGX) offers software applications enclave to protect their confidentiality and integrity from malicious operating systems. The SSL/TLS protocol, which is the de facto standard for protecting transport-layer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Yuan Xiao , Mengyuan Li , Sanchuan Chen , Yinqian Zhang

Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) enables a server to efficiently search and update over encrypted files. To minimize the leakage during updates, a security notion named forward and backward privacy is expected for newly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Lei Xu , Leqian Zheng , Chengzhi Xu , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang

Deep neural networks are becoming popular and important assets of many AI companies. However, recent studies indicate that they are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks can be either white-box or black-box. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yun Xiang , Zhuangzhi Chen , Zuohui Chen , Zebin Fang , Haiyang Hao , Jinyin Chen , Yi Liu , Zhefu Wu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

This paper shows that today's wireless charging interface is vulnerable to power side-channel attacks; a smartphone charging wirelessly leaks private information about its activity to the wireless charger (charging transmitter). We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Alexander S. La Cour , Khurram K. Afridi , G. Edward Suh

The Internet of Drones (IoD) is an emerging and crucial paradigm enabling advanced applications that require seamless, secure communication across heterogeneous and untrusted domains. In such environments, access control and the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Xuanyu Chen , Yue Zheng , Junqing Zhang , Guanxiong Shen , Chip-Hong Chang

Web cache deception (WCD) is an attack proposed in 2017, where an attacker tricks a caching proxy into erroneously storing private information transmitted over the Internet and subsequently gains unauthorized access to that cached data. Due…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Seyed Ali Mirheidari , Sajjad Arshad , Kaan Onarlioglu , Bruno Crispo , Engin Kirda , William Robertson

Cryptographic libraries, an essential part of cybersecurity, are shown to be susceptible to different types of attacks, including side-channel and memory-corruption attacks. In this article, we examine popular cryptographic libraries in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Rodothea Myrsini Tsoupidi , Elena Troubitsyna , Panos Papadimitratos

Over the past few years, deep learning has been getting progressively more popular for the exploitation of side-channel vulnerabilities in embedded cryptographic applications, as it offers advantages in terms of the amount of attack traces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yohaï-Eliel Berreby , Laurent Sauvage

The wide deployment of Large Language Models (LLMs) has given rise to strong demands for optimizing their inference performance. Today's techniques serving this purpose primarily focus on reducing latency and improving throughput through…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Linke Song , Zixuan Pang , Wenhao Wang , Zihao Wang , XiaoFeng Wang , Hongbo Chen , Wei Song , Yier Jin , Dan Meng , Rui Hou

We systematize software side-channel attacks with a focus on vulnerabilities and countermeasures in the cryptographic implementations. Particularly, we survey past research literature to categorize vulnerable implementations, and identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Tianwei Zhang , Jun Jiang , Yinqian Zhang

Substring-searchable symmetric encryption (substring-SSE) has become increasingly critical for privacy-preserving applications in cloud systems. However, existing schemes remain vulnerable to information leakage during search operations,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xijie Ba , Qin Liu , Xiaohong Li , Jianting Ning

Detector-device-independent quantum key distribution (ddiQKD) held the promise of being robust to detector side-channels, a major security loophole in QKD implementations. In contrast to what has been claimed, however, we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Shihan Sajeed , Anqi Huang , Shihai Sun , Feihu Xu , Vadim Makarov , Marcos Curty

This paper presents a novel singletrace sidechannel attack on FALCON a latticebased postquantum digital signature protocol recently approved for standardization by NIST We target the discrete Gaussian sampling operation within FALCONs key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Jinyi Qiu , Aydin Aysu

We present a software approach to mitigate access-driven side-channel attacks that leverage last-level caches (LLCs) shared across cores to leak information between security domains (e.g., tenants in a cloud). Our approach dynamically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Ziqiao Zhou , Michael K. Reiter , Yinqian Zhang

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) offer hardware-assisted means to protect code and data. However, as shown in numerous results over the years, attackers can use side-channels to leak data access patterns and even single-step the code.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Jan Wichelmann , Anja Rabich , Anna P"atschke , Thomas Eisenbarth

Path MTU Discovery (PMTUD) and IP address sharing are integral aspects of modern Internet infrastructure. In this paper, we investigate the security vulnerabilities associated with PMTUD within the context of prevalent IP address sharing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xuewei Feng , Zhaoxi Li , Qi Li , Ziqiang Wang , Kun Sun , Ke Xu

Side-channel attacks currently constitute the main challenge for quantum key distribution (QKD) to bridge theory with practice. So far two main approaches have been introduced to address this problem, (full) device-independent QKD and…