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Neural code models have been increasingly incorporated into software development processes. However, their susceptibility to backdoor attacks presents a significant security risk. The state-of-the-art understanding focuses on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Junyao Ye , Zhen Li , Xi Tang , Shouhuai Xu , Deqing Zou , Zhongsheng Yuan

The security of logic locking has been called into question by various attacks, especially a Boolean satisfiability (SAT) based attack, that exploits scan access in a working chip. Among other techniques, a robust design-for-security (DFS)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Nimisha Limaye , Abhrajit Sengupta , Mohammed Nabeel , Ozgur Sinanoglu

We demonstrate attacks on the boot ROMs of the Nintendo 3DS in order to exfiltrate secret information from normally protected areas of memory and gain persistent early code execution on devices which have not previously been compromised.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Michael Scire , Melissa Mears , Devon Maloney , Matthew Norman , Shaun Tux , Phoebe Monroe

Cryptographic algorithm implementations are vulnerable to Cold Boot attacks, which consist in exploiting the persistence of RAM cells across reboots or power down cycles to read the memory contents and recover precious sensitive data. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Pierpaolo Santucci , Emiliano Ingrassia , Giulio Picierro , Marco Cesati

Semi-Private Function Evaluation (SPFE) enables joint computation while protecting both input data and the function itself. A practical instantiation is gate-hiding garbled circuits, which conceal gate functionalities while revealing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Chao Yin , Zunchen Huang , Chenglu Jin , Marten van Dijk , Fabio Massacci

We demonstrate the extraction of an AES secret key from flash memory on the ATMega328 microcontroller (the microcontroller used on the popular Arduino Genuino/Uno board). We loaded a standard AVR-architecture AES-128 implementation onto the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Utsav Banerjee , Lisa Ho , Skanda Koppula

Cryptanalysis result of key expansion algorithms in AES and SM4 revealed that, (1) there exist weaknesses in their S-Boxes, and (2) the round key expansion algorithm is reversible, i.e., the initial key can be recovered from any round key,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Hongjun Liu , Xingyuan Wang

Recently, a chaos-based image encryption algorithm using alternate structure (IEAS) was proposed. This paper focuses on differential cryptanalysis of the algorithm and finds that some properties of IEAS can support a differential attack to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-12-22 Yu Zhang , Chengqing Li , Kwok-Wo Wong , Shi Shu , Guanrong Chen

Cache timing attack is a type of side channel attack where the leaking timing information due to the cache behaviour of a crypto system is used by an attacker to break the system. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) was considered a secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Janaka Alawatugoda , Darshana Jayasinghe , Roshan Ragel

The advances of the Internet of Things (IoT) have had a fundamental impact and influence in sharping our rich living experiences. However, since IoT devices are usually resource-constrained, lightweight block ciphers have played a major…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Duc-Phong Le , Rongxing Lu , Ali A. Ghorbani

Intellectual Property (IP) theft is a serious concern for the integrated circuit (IC) industry. To address this concern, logic locking countermeasure transforms a logic circuit to a different one to obfuscate its inner details. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Qinhan Tan , Seetal Potluri , Aydin Aysu

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

In modern computing environments, hardware resources are commonly shared, and parallel computation is widely used. Parallel tasks can cause privacy and security problems if proper isolation is not enforced. Intel proposed SGX to create a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-22 Ahmad Moghimi , Gorka Irazoqui , Thomas Eisenbarth

Here we introduce an improved approach to Variational Quantum Attack Algorithms (VQAA) on crytographic protocols. Our methods provide robust quantum attacks to well-known cryptographic algorithms, more efficiently and with remarkably fewer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Borja Aizpurua , Pablo Bermejo , Josu Etxezarreta Martinez , Roman Orus

With the extraordinary maturity of data exchange in network environments and increasing the attackers capabilities, information security has become the most important process for data storage and communication. In order to provide such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-04-15 Omer K. Jasim Mohammad , Safia Abbas , El-Sayed M. El-Horbaty , Abdel-Badeeh M. Salem

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is widely recognized as the most important block cipher in common use nowadays. This high assurance in AES is given by its resistance to ten years of extensive cryptanalysis, that has shown no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-12 Anna Rimoldi , Massimiliano Sala , Enrico Bertolazzi

In this study, we analyze model inversion attacks with only two assumptions: feature vectors of user data are known, and a black-box API for inference is provided. On the one hand, limitations of existing studies are addressed by opting for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xingyang Ni , Heikki Huttunen , Esa Rahtu

The potential weakness of the Y-00 direct encryption protocol when the encryption box ENC in Y-00 is not chosen properly is demonstrated in a fast correlation attack by S. Donnet et al in Phys. Lett. A 35, 6 (2006) 406-410. In this paper,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-14 Horace P. Yuen , Ranjith Nair

Adversarial robustness of deep autoencoders (AEs) has received less attention than that of discriminative models, although their compressed latent representations induce ill-conditioned mappings that can amplify small input perturbations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Chethan Krishnamurthy Ramanaik , Arjun Roy , Tobias Callies , Eirini Ntoutsi

In the present day, AES is one the most widely used and most secure Encryption Systems prevailing. So, naturally lots of research work is going on to mount a significant attack on AES. Many different forms of Linear and differential…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Riddhi Ghosal