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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

Context switching is utilized by operating systems to change the execution context between application programs. It involves saving and restoring the states of multiple registers and performing a pipeline flush to remove any pre-fetched…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sahan Sanjaya , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

Lightweight block ciphers have been widely used in applications such as RFID tags, IoTs, and network sensors. Among them, with comparable parameters, the Light Encryption Device (LED) block cipher achieves the smallest area. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Yuan Yao , Mo Yang , Pantea Kiaei , Patrick Schaumont

Recent attacks using thermal laser stimulation (TLS) have shown that it is possible to extract cryptographic keys from the battery-backed memory on state-of-the-art field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). However, the professional failure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Thilo Krachenfels , Heiko Lohrke , Jean-Pierre Seifert , Enrico Dietz , Sven Frohmann , Heinz-Wilhelm Hübers

We propose a novel approach for performing side-channel attacks on elliptic curve cryptography. Unlike previous approaches and inspired by the ``activity detection'' literature, we adopt a long-short-term memory (LSTM) neural network to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Alberto Battistello , Guido Bertoni , Michele Corrias , Lorenzo Nava , Davide Rusconi , Matteo Zoia , Fabio Pierazzi , Andrea Lanzi

Differential Power Analysis (DPA) has been an active area of research for the past two decades to study the attacks for extracting secret information from cryptographic implementations through power measurements and their defenses.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Anuj Dubey , Rosario Cammarota , Aydin Aysu

The gamut of todays internet-connected embedded devices has led to increased concerns regarding the security and confidentiality of data. Most internet-connected embedded devices employ mathematically secure cryptographic algorithms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Archisman Ghosh

Existing side-channel analysis techniques require a leakage model, in the form of a prior knowledge or a set of training data, to establish a relationship between the secret data and the measurements. We introduce side-channel analysis with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Keyvan Ramezanpour , Paul Ampadu , William Diehl

While modern masking schemes provide provable security against passive side-channel analysis (SCA), such as power analysis, single faults can be employed to recover the secret key of ciphers even in masked implementations. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Keyvan Ramezanpour , Paul Ampadu , William Diehl

Over the last decades, Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) has risen as a promising solution for secure communications. However, like all cryptographic protocols, QKD implementations can open security vulnerabilities. Until now, the study of…

To lower cost and increase the utilization of Cloud Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), researchers have recently been exploring the concept of multi-tenant FPGAs, where multiple independent users simultaneously share the same remote…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Shayan Moini , Shanquan Tian , Jakub Szefer , Daniel Holcomb , Russell Tessier

Artificial Intelligence (AI) hardware accelerators have been widely adopted to enhance the efficiency of deep learning applications. However, they also raise security concerns regarding their vulnerability to power side-channel attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Xiaobei Yan , Chip Hong Chang , Tianwei Zhang

Supervised deep learning has emerged as an effective tool for carrying out power side-channel attacks on cryptographic implementations. While increasingly-powerful deep learning-based attacks are regularly published, comparatively-little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Jimmy Gammell , Anand Raghunathan , Kaushik Roy

In his keynote speech at CHES 2004, Kocher advocated that side-channel attacks were an illustration that formal cryptography was not as secure as it was believed because some assumptions (e.g., no auxiliary information is available during…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Pablo Rauzy , Sylvain Guilley , Zakaria Najm

The proposed system implements the electronic embedded lock, its provides a great benefit over traditional lock, which use the manual key, so if the key lost or theft then anybody could open the lock, while thieving or losing the long and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-09-26 Muhanad Hayder Mohammed

The interest in quantum computing has grown rapidly in recent years, and with it grows the importance of securing quantum circuits. A novel type of threat to quantum circuits that dedicated attackers could launch are power trace attacks. To…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ferhat Erata , Chuanqi Xu , Ruzica Piskac , Jakub Szefer

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is widely recognized as the most important block cipher in common use nowadays. This high assurance in AES is given by its resistance to ten years of extensive cryptanalysis, that has shown no…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-11-12 Anna Rimoldi , Massimiliano Sala , Enrico Bertolazzi

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

Software testing is becoming a critical part of the development cycle of embedded devices, enabling vulnerability detection. A well-studied approach of software testing is fuzz-testing (fuzzing), during which mutated input is sent to an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-08-15 Philip Sperl , Konstantin Böttinger

Detecting weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms is of utmost importance for designing secure information systems. The state-of-the-art soft analytical side-channel attack (SASCA) uses physical leakage information to make probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Thomas Wedenig , Rishub Nagpal , Gaëtan Cassiers , Stefan Mangard , Robert Peharz