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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

Power side-channel (PSC) attacks are well-known threats to sensitive hardware like advanced encryption standard (AES) crypto cores. Given the significant impact of supply voltages (VCCs) on power profiles, various countermeasures based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Saideep Sreekumar , Mohammed Ashraf , Mohammed Nabeel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Johann Knechtel

Secret keys can be extracted from the power consumption or electromagnetic emanations of unprotected devices. Traditional counter-measures have limited scope of protection, and impose several restrictions on how sensitive data must be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Kleber Stangherlin , Manoj Sachdev

This paper presents two attack strategies designed to evade detection in ADMM-based systems by preventing significant changes to the residual during the attacked iteration. While many detection algorithms focus on identifying false data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sabrina Bruckmeier , Huadong Mo , James Qin

In this letter, as a proof of concept, we propose a deep learning-based approach to attack the chaos-based image encryption algorithm in \cite{guan2005chaos}. The proposed method first projects the chaos-based encrypted images into the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Chen He , Kan Ming , Yongwei Wang , Z. Jane Wang

While cryptographic algorithms such as the ubiquitous Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) are secure, *physical implementations* of these algorithms in hardware inevitably 'leak' sensitive data such as cryptographic keys. A particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Jimmy Gammell , Anand Raghunathan , Abolfazl Hashemi , Kaushik Roy

Screaming-channel attacks enable Electromagnetic (EM) Side-Channel Attacks (SCAs) at larger distances due to higher EM leakage energies than traditional SCAs, relaxing the requirement of close access to the victim. This attack can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jeremy Guillaume , Maxime Pelcat , Amor Nafkha , Ruben Salvador

We give polynomial time attacks on the McEliece public key cryptosystem based either on algebraic geometry (AG) codes or on small codimensional subcodes of AG codes. These attacks consist in the blind reconstruction either of an Error…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Alain Couvreur , Irene Márquez-Corbella , Ruud Pellikaan

The study of sending and receiving secret messages is called cryptography. Generally, senders and receivers are unaware about the process of encryption and decryption. Hence, encryption plays an important role in data communication and data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-04 Ziaur Rahaman , Anjela Diana Corraya , Mousumi Akter Sumi , Ali Newaz Bahar

To make cryptographic processors more resilient against side-channel attacks, engineers have developed various countermeasures. However, the effectiveness of these countermeasures is often uncertain, as it depends on the complex interplay…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Elie Bursztein , Luca Invernizzi , Karel Král , Daniel Moghimi , Jean-Michel Picod , Marina Zhang

The financial industry relies on deep learning models for making important decisions. This adoption brings new danger, as deep black-box models are known to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks. In computer vision, one can shape the output…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Alina Ermilova , Elizaveta Kovtun , Dmitry Berestnev , Alexey Zaytsev

Lightweight cryptography is a novel diversion from conventional cryptography that targets internet-of-things (IoT) platform due to resource constraints. In comparison, it offers smaller cryptographic primitives such as shorter key sizes,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Nilupulee A. Gunathilake , Ahmed Al-Dubai , William J. Buchanan , Owen Lo

New cryptographic techniques such as homomorphic encryption (HE) allow computations to be outsourced to and evaluated blindfolded in a resourceful cloud. These computations often require private data owned by multiple participants, engaging…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Asma Aloufi , Peizhao Hu , Yongsoo Song , Kristin Lauter

Deep neural networks and other machine learning systems, despite being extremely powerful and able to make predictions with high accuracy, are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. We proposed the DeltaBound attack: a novel, powerful attack in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Lorenzo Rossi

Existing logic-locking attacks are known to successfully decrypt functionally correct key of a locked combinational circuit. It is possible to extend these attacks to real-world Silicon-based Intellectual Properties (IPs, which are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Seetal Potluri , Aydin Aysu , Akash Kumar

The SAT attack has shown to be efficient against most combinational logic encryption methods. It can be extended to attack sequential logic encryption techniques by leveraging circuit unrolling and model checking methods. However, with no…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Yinghua Hu , Yuke Zhang , Kaixin Yang , Dake Chen , Peter A. Beerel , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Backdoor attacks represent a subtle yet effective class of cyberattacks targeting AI models, primarily due to their stealthy nature. The model behaves normally on clean data but exhibits malicious behavior only when the attacker embeds a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Sujeevan Aseervatham , Achraf Kerzazi , Younès Bennani

Embedded software is developed under the assumption that hardware execution is always correct. Fault attacks break and exploit that assumption. Through the careful introduction of targeted faults, an adversary modifies the control-flow or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Bilgiday Yuce , Patrick Schaumont , Marc Witteman

recent literature has proposed various detection and identification methods for FDIAs, but few studies have focused on a solution that would prevent such attacks from occurring. However, great strides have been made using deep learning to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Fayha ALmutairy , Reem Shadid , Safwan Wshah

Logic locking has become a promising approach to provide hardware security in the face of a possibly insecure fabrication supply chain. While many techniques have focused on locking combinational logic (CL), an alternative latch-locking…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Dake Chen , Xuan Zhou , Yinghua Hu , Yuke Zhang , Kaixin Yang , Andrew Rittenbach , Pierluigi Nuzzo , Peter A. Beerel