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Cache side-channel attacks exhibit severe threats to software security and privacy, especially for cryptosystems. In this paper, we propose CaType, a novel refinement type-based tool for detecting cache side channels in crypto software.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-20 Ke Jiang , Yuyan Bao , Shuai Wang , Zhibo Liu , Tianwei Zhang

A long-standing challenge is the design of chips resilient to faults and glitches. Both fine-grained gate diversity and coarse-grained modular redundancy have been used in the past. However, these approaches have not been well-studied under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Ahmad T. Sheikh , Ali Shoker , Suhaib A. Fahmy , Paulo Esteves-Verissimo

We consider the problem of \emph{secretive coded caching} in a shared cache setup where the number of users accessing a particular \emph{helper cache} is more than one, and every user can access exactly one helper cache. In secretive coded…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Shreya Shrestha Meel , B. Sundar Rajan

We are interested in investigating the security of source encryption with a symmetric key under side-channel attacks. In this paper, we propose a general framework of source encryption with a symmetric key under the side-channel attacks,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Yasutada Oohama , Bagus Santoso

The Bicameral Cache is a cache organization proposal for a vector architecture that segregates data according to their access type, distinguishing scalar from vector references. Its aim is to avoid both types of references from interfering…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Susana Rebolledo , Borja Perez , Jose Luis Bosque , Peter Hsu

We design and develop a secret-sharing-scheme-based cyberattack detection model(S3CDM)that can detect unauthorized or illegal activities (especially insider attacks) and protect sensitive information within complex network infrastructures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Chi Sing Chum , Jia Lu , Claire Tang , Xiaowen Zhang

As a strategy to further reduce the transmission pressure during the peak traffic times in wireless network, coded caching has been widely studied recently. And several coded caching schemes are constructed focusing on the two core problems…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Minquan Cheng , Jing Jiang , Youzhi Yao

Intra-session network coding is known to be vulnerable to pollution attacks. In this work, first, we introduce a novel homomorphic MAC scheme called SpaceMac, which allows an intermediate node to verify if its received packets belong to a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-19 Anh Le , Athina Markopoulou

As machine learning models become increasingly deployed across the edge of internet of things environments, a partitioned deep learning paradigm in which models are split across multiple computational nodes introduces a new dimension of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Giulio Rossolini , Fabio Brau , Alessandro Biondi , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Buttazzo

The implementations of most hardened cryptographic libraries use defensive programming techniques for side-channel resistance. These techniques are usually specified as guidelines to developers on specific code patterns to use or avoid.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Moritz Schneider , Daniele Lain , Ivan Puddu , Nicolas Dutly , Srdjan Capkun

There is a long history of side channels in the memory hierarchy of modern CPUs. Especially the cache side channel is widely used in the context of transient execution attacks and covert channels. Therefore, many secure cache architectures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jan Philipp Thoma , Tim Güneysu

We study the problem of multi-access coded caching (MACC): a central server has $N$ files, $K$ ($K \leq N$) caches each of which stores $M$ out of the $N$ files, $K$ users each of which demands one out of the $N$ files, and each user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Niladri Das , B. Sundar Rajan

Side-channel attacks that leak sensitive information through a computing device's interaction with its physical environment have proven to be a severe threat to devices' security, particularly when adversaries have unfettered physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ileana Buhan , Lejla Batina , Yuval Yarom , Patrick Schaumont

Cache attacks exploit memory access patterns of cryptographic implementations. Constant-Time implementation techniques have become an indispensable tool in fighting cache timing attacks. These techniques engineer the memory accesses of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Ahmad Moghimi , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar

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

Research in logic encryption over the last decade has resulted in various techniques to prevent different security threats such as Trojan insertion, intellectual property leakage, and reverse engineering. However, there is little agreement…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Yinghua Hu , Vivek V. Menon , Andrew Schmidt , Joshua Monson , Matthew French , Pierluigi Nuzzo

Side-channel attacks consist of retrieving internal data from a victim system by analyzing its leakage, which usually requires proximity to the victim in the range of a few millimetres. Screaming channels are EM side channels transmitted at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jeremy Guillaume , Maxime Pelcat , Amor Nafkha , Rubén Salvador

The transient execution attack is a type of attack leveraging the vulnerability of modern CPU optimization technologies. New attacks surface rapidly. The side-channel is a key part of transient execution attacks to leak data. In this work,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Yu Jin , Pengfei Qiu , Chunlu Wang , Yihao Yang , Dongsheng Wang , Gang Qu

Adversarial extraction attacks constitute an insidious threat against Deep Learning (DL) models in-which an adversary aims to steal the architecture, parameters, and hyper-parameters of a targeted DL model. Existing extraction attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-01 William Hackett , Stefan Trawicki , Zhengxin Yu , Neeraj Suri , Peter Garraghan

Randomizing the mapping of addresses to cache entries has proven to be an effective technique for hardening caches against contention-based attacks like Prime+Prome. While attacks and defenses are still evolving, it is clear that randomized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Moritz Peters , Nicolas Gaudin , Jan Philipp Thoma , Vianney Lapôtre , Pascal Cotret , Guy Gogniat , Tim Güneysu