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Numerous previous works have studied deep learning algorithms applied in the context of side-channel attacks, which demonstrated the ability to perform successful key recoveries. These studies show that modern cryptographic devices are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruizhe Gu , Ping Wang , Mengce Zheng , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

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

To meet the ever-growing need for performance in silicon devices, SoC providers have been increasingly relying on software-hardware cooperation. By controlling hardware resources such as power or clock management from the software,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Joseph Gravellier , Jean-Max Dutertre , Yannick Teglia , Philippe Loubet Moundi

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

Attacks based on side-channel analysis (SCA) pose a severe security threat to modern computing platforms, further exacerbated on IoT devices by their pervasiveness and handling of private and critical data. Designing SCA-resistant computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Davide Zoni , Andrea Galimberti , Davide Galli

Speculative attacks are still an active threat today that, even if initially focused on the x86 platform, reach across all modern hardware architectures. RISC-V is a newly proposed open instruction set architecture that has seen traction…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Ruxandra Bălucea , Paul Irofti

Cryptography is vital for data security, but cryptographic algorithms can still be vulnerable to side-channel attacks (SCAs), physical assaults exploiting power consumption and EM radiation. SCAs pose a significant threat to cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Muhammad Rusyaidi Zunaidi , Asanka Sayakkara , Mark Scanlon

We demonstrate that the format in which private keys are persisted impacts Side Channel Analysis (SCA) security. Surveying several widely deployed software libraries, we investigate the formats they support, how they parse these keys, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Cesar Pereida García , Sohaib ul Hassan , Nicola Tuveri , Iaroslav Gridin , Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya , Billy Bob Brumley

Side-channel attacks allow extracting secret information from the execution of cryptographic primitives by correlating the partially known computed data and the measured side-channel signal. However, to set up a successful side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Giuseppe Chiari , Davide Galli , Francesco Lattari , Matteo Matteucci , Davide Zoni

Modern computer processors use microarchitectural optimization mechanisms to improve performance. As a downside, such optimizations are prone to introducing side-channel vulnerabilities. Speculative loading of memory, called prefetching, is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Till Schlüter , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

As cache-based side-channel attacks become serious security problems, various defenses have been proposed and deployed in both software and hardware. Consequently, cache-based side-channel attacks on processes co-residing on the same core…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Wei Song , Rui Hou , Peng Liu , Xiaoxin Li , Peinan Li , Lutan Zhao , Xiaofei Fu , Yifei Sun , Dan Meng

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

The side-channel attack is an attack method based on the information gained about implementations of computer systems, rather than weaknesses in algorithms. Information about system characteristics such as power consumption, electromagnetic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Guanlin Li , Chang Liu , Han Yu , Yanhong Fan , Libang Zhang , Zongyue Wang , Meiqin Wang

Side-channel attacks are a security exploit that take advantage of information leakage. They use measurement and analysis of physical parameters to reverse engineer and extract secrets from a system. Power analysis attacks in particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yun Chen , Ali Hajiabadi , Romain Poussier , Andreas Diavastos , Shivam Bhasin , Trevor E. Carlson

To protect cryptographic implementations from side-channel vulnerabilities, developers must adopt constant-time programming practices. As these can be error-prone, many side-channel detection tools have been proposed. Despite this, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Antoine Geimer , Mathéo Vergnolle , Frédéric Recoules , Lesly-Ann Daniel , Sébastien Bardin , Clémentine Maurice

Modern computers rely on USB and HDMI ports for connecting external peripherals and display devices. Despite their built-in security measures, these ports remain susceptible to passive power-based side-channel attacks. This paper presents a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Sayed Erfan Arefin , Abdul Serwadda

The arm race between hardware security engineers and side-channel researchers has become more competitive with more sophisticated attacks and defenses in the last decade. While modern hardware features improve the system performance…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Debopriya Roy Dipta , Berk Gulmezoglu

Power side channel is a very important category of side channels, which can be exploited to steal confidential information from a computing system by analyzing its power consumption. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Lin Yan , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen , Hong Mei

Side-channel attacks are efficient attacks against cryptographic devices. They use only quantities observable from outside, such as the duration and the power consumption. Attacks against synchronous devices using electric observations are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-24 Philippe Hoogvorst , Sylvain Guilley , Sumanta Chaudhuri , Jean-Luc Danger , Taha Beyrouthy , Laurent Fesquet

Covert channels enable information leakage across security boundaries of the operating system. Microarchitectural covert channels exploit changes in execution timing resulting from competing access to limited hardware resources. We use the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Nils Wistoff , Moritz Schneider , Frank K. Gürkaynak , Luca Benini , Gernot Heiser