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Information Security has become an important issue in modern world as the popularity and infiltration of internet commerce and communication technologies has emerged, making them a prospective medium to the security threats. To surmount…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-05 Mansoor Ebrahim , Shujaat Khan , Umer Bin Khalid

This paper studies the problem of secure communication over a K-transmitter multiple access channel in the presence of an external eavesdropper, subject to a joint secrecy constraint (i.e., information leakage rate from the collection of K…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-24 Yanling Chen , O. Ozan Koyluoglu , A. J. Han Vinck

Semi-quantum key distribution protocols are designed to allow two parties to establish a shared secret key, secure against an all-powerful adversary, even when one of the users is restricted to measuring and preparing quantum states in one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-15 Omar Amer , Walter O. Krawec

Side-channel attacks (SCAs), which infer secret information (for example secret keys) by exploiting information that leaks from the implementation (such as power consumption), have been shown to be a non-negligible threat to modern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shan Jin , Minghua Xu , Yiwei Cai

Evolving attacks on the vulnerabilities of the computing systems demand novel defense strategies to keep pace with newer attacks. This report discusses previous works on side-channel attacks (SCAs) and defenses for cache-targeted and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Abhijitt Dhavlle

We analyze physical-layer security based on the premise that the coding mechanism for secrecy over noisy channels is tied to the notion of channel resolvability. Instead of considering capacity-based constructions, which associate to each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-09 Matthieu R. Bloch , J. Nicholas Laneman

Key agreement is a fundamental cryptographic primitive. It has been proved that key agreement protocols with security against computationally unbounded adversaries cannot exist in a setting where Alice and Bob do not have dependent…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-04-14 Reihaneh Safavi-Naini , Pengwei Wang

Over the last two decades, the danger of sharing resources between programs has been repeatedly highlighted. Multiple side-channel attacks, which seek to exploit shared components for leaking information, have been devised, mostly targeting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Daniel Genkin , William Kosasih , Fangfei Liu , Anna Trikalinou , Thomas Unterluggauer , Yuval Yarom

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 consider the wiretap channel, where the individual channel uses have memory or are influenced by an adversary. We analyze the explicit and computationally efficient construction of information-theoretically secure coding schemes which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Esther Hänggi , Iyán Méndez Veiga , Ligong Wang

Side-channel attacks on memory (SCAM) exploit unintended data leaks from memory subsystems to infer sensitive information, posing significant threats to system security. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in memory access patterns, cache…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 MD Mahady Hassan , Shanto Roy , Reza Rahaeimehr

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

We study the successive refinement setting of Shannon cipher system (SCS) under the maximal leakage secrecy metric for discrete memoryless sources under bounded distortion measures. Specifically, we generalize the threat model for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Zhuangfei Wu , Lin Bai , Lin Zhou

Despite numerous countermeasures proposed by practitioners and researchers, remote control-flow alteration of programs with memory-safety vulnerabilities continues to be a realistic threat. Guaranteeing that complex software is completely…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Martín Ochoa , Sebastian Banescu , Cynthia Disenfeld , Gilles Barthe , Vijay Ganesh

Constant-time code has become the de-facto standard for secure cryptographic implementations. However, some memory-based leakage classes such as ciphertext side-channels and silent stores remain unaddressed. Prior work proposed three…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Anna Pätschke , Jan Wichelmann , Thomas Eisenbarth

We study the problem of rate-distortion-equivocation with side-information only available at the decoder when an independent private random key is shared between the sender and the receiver. The sender compresses the sequence, and the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Hamid Ghourchian , Photios A. Stavrou , Tobias J. Oechtering , Mikael Skoglund

Network slicing in 5G and the future 6G networks will enable the creation of multiple virtualized networks on a shared physical infrastructure. This innovative approach enables the provision of tailored networks to accommodate specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Wei Shao , Chandra Thapa , Rayne Holland , Sarah Ali Siddiqui , Seyit Camtepe

In this paper, we investigate how constraints on the randomization in the encoding process affect the secrecy rates achievable over wiretap channels. In particular, we characterize the secrecy capacity with a rate-limited local source of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-27 Matthieu R. Bloch , Joerg Kliewer

A common countermeasure against side-channel attacks on secret key cryptographic implementations is $d$th-order masking, which splits each sensitive variable into $d+1$ random shares. In this paper, maximal leakage bounds on the probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Julien Béguinot , Yi Liu , Olivier Rioul , Wei Cheng , Sylvain Guilley

A new channel coding approach was proposed in [1] for random multiple access communication over the discrete-time memoryless channel. The coding approach allows users to choose their communication rates independently without sharing the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Zheng Wang , Jie Luo