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With the rapid advancements in quantum computing, traditional cryptographic schemes like Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) and elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) are becoming vulnerable, necessitating the development of quantum-resistant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Omar Alnaseri , Yassine Himeur , Shadi Atalla , Wathiq Mansoor

Fuzzing is utilized for testing software and systems for cybersecurity risk via the automated adaptation of inputs. It facilitates the identification of software bugs and misconfigurations that may create vulnerabilities, cause abnormal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Jack Hance , Jeremy Straub

The rapid development of quantum computers threatens traditional cryptographic schemes, prompting the need for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC). Although the NIST standardization process has accelerated the development of such algorithms,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Mauro Conti , Francesco Marchiori , Sebastiano Matarazzo , Marco Rubin

Side channels pose a significant threat to the confidentiality of software systems. Such vulnerabilities are challenging to detect and evaluate because they arise from non-functional properties of software such as execution times and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Yannic Noller , Saeid Tizpaz-Niari

Another threat is the development of large quantum computers, which have a high likelihood of breaking the high popular security protocols because it can use both Shor and Grover algorithms. In order to fix this looming threat,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Navin Chhibber , Amber Rastogi , Ankur Mahida , Vatsal Gupta , Piyush Ranjan

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is becoming essential for securing Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems against quantum-enabled adversaries. However, existing evaluation approaches primarily focus on isolated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jonatan Rassekhnia

Fuzzing is a powerful software testing technique renowned for its effectiveness in identifying software vulnerabilities. Traditional fuzzing evaluations typically focus on overall fuzzer performance across a set of target programs, yet few…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Miao Miao

This paper investigates an emerging cache side channel attack defense approach involving the use of hardware performance counters (HPCs). These counters monitor microarchitectural events and analyze statistical deviations to differentiate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-18 William Kosasih

Computationally hard problems based on coding theory, such as the syndrome decoding problem, have been used for constructing secure cryptographic schemes for a long time. Schemes based on these problems are also assumed to be secure against…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Puja Mondal , Supriya Adhikary , Suparna Kundu , Angshuman Karmakar

Modern processor advancements have introduced security risks, particularly in the form of microarchitectural timing attacks. High-profile attacks such as Meltdown and Spectre have revealed critical flaws, compromising the entire system's…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Congcong Chen , Jinhua Cui , Jiliang Zhang

Timing vulnerabilities in processors have emerged as a potent threat. As processors are the foundation of any computing system, identifying these flaws is imperative. Recently fuzzing techniques, traditionally used for detecting software…

Post-quantum security is critical in the quantum era. Quantum computers, along with quantum algorithms, make the standard cryptography based on RSA or ECDSA over FL or Blockchain vulnerable. The implementation of post-quantum cryptography…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Dev Gurung , Shiva Raj Pokhrel , Gang Li

As quantum technologies continue to advance, the proliferation of hardware architectures with diverse capabilities and limitations has underscored the importance of benchmarking as a tool to compare performance across platforms. Achieving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 David Aguirre , Rubén Peña , Mikel Sanz

As the complexity of modern processors has increased over the years, developing effective verification strategies to identify bugs prior to manufacturing has become critical. Undiscovered micro-architectural bugs in processors can manifest…

The transition to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) presents significant challenges for certificate-based identity management in industrial environments, where secure onboarding of devices relies on long-lived and interoperable credentials.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Nino Ricchizzi , Christian Schwinne , Jan Pelzl

Hardware security vulnerabilities in computing systems compromise the security defenses of not only the hardware but also the software running on it. Recent research has shown that hardware fuzzing is a promising technique to efficiently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Chen Chen , Vasudev Gohil , Rahul Kande , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi , Jeyavijayan Rajendran

Hardware-software leakage contracts have emerged as a formalism for specifying side-channel security guarantees of modern processors, yet verifying that a complex hardware design complies with its contract remains a major challenge. While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Gideon Geier , Pariya Hajipour , Jan Reineke

Post-quantum cryptography (PQC) is crucial for securing data against emerging quantum threats. However, its algorithms are computationally complex and difficult to implement efficiently on hardware. In this paper, we explore the potential…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yuchao Liao , Tosiron Adegbija , Roman Lysecky

Cyber attacks and malware are now more prevalent than ever and the trend is ever upward. There have been several approaches to attack detection including resident software applications at the root or user level, e.g., virus detection, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-31 James Christopher Foreman

Digital Twins (DT) virtually model cyber-physical objects using Internet of Things (IoT) components (e.g., sensors) to gather and process senstive information stored in the cloud. Trustworthiness of the streamed data is crucial which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Saif E. Nouma , Attila A. Yavuz