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Side-channel attacks try to extract secret information from a system by analyzing different side-channel signatures, such as power consumption, electromagnetic emanation, thermal dissipation, acoustics, time, etc. Power-based side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Sahan Sanjaya , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

Timing side-channel attacks exploit variations in program execution time to recover sensitive information. Cryptographic implementations are especially vulnerable to these attacks, since even small timing differences in operations such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nges Brian Njungle , Edwin P. Kayang , Mishel J. Paul , Michel A. Kinsy

Side-channel attacks have become a severe threat to the confidentiality of computer applications and systems. One popular type of such attacks is the microarchitectural attack, where the adversary exploits the hardware features to break the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Xiaoxuan Lou , Tianwei Zhang , Jun Jiang , Yinqian Zhang

Last-level cache side-channel attacks have been mostly demonstrated in highly-controlled, quiescent local environments. Hence, it is unclear whether such attacks are feasible in a production cloud environment. In the cloud, side channels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zirui Neil Zhao , Adam Morrison , Christopher W. Fletcher , Josep Torrellas

With recent developments in deep learning, the ubiquity of micro-phones and the rise in online services via personal devices, acoustic side channel attacks present a greater threat to keyboards than ever. This paper presents a practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Joshua Harrison , Ehsan Toreini , Maryam Mehrnezhad

Today's mobile devices contain densely packaged system-on-chips (SoCs) with multi-core, high-frequency CPUs and complex pipelines. In parallel, sophisticated SoC-assisted security mechanisms have become commonplace for protecting device…

Side-channel attacks allow to extract sensitive information from cryptographic primitives by correlating the partially known computed data and the measured side-channel signal. Starting from the raw side-channel trace, the preprocessing of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Davide Galli , Giuseppe Chiari , Davide Zoni

Cache side channel attacks are a sophisticated and persistent threat that exploit vulnerabilities in modern processors to extract sensitive information. These attacks leverage weaknesses in shared computational resources, particularly the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Tejal Joshi , Aarya Kawalay , Anvi Jamkhande , Amit Joshi

Besides cryptographic secrets, side-channel attacks also leak sensitive user input. The most accurate attacks exploit cache timings or interrupt information to monitor keystroke timings and subsequently infer typed words and sentences.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Michael Schwarz , Moritz Lipp , Daniel Gruss , Samuel Weiser , Clémentine Maurice , Raphael Spreitzer , Stefan Mangard

Side-channel attacks on mobile devices have gained increasing attention since their introduction in 2007. While traditional side-channel attacks, such as power analysis attacks and electromagnetic analysis attacks, required physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Raphael Spreitzer , Veelasha Moonsamy , Thomas Korak , Stefan Mangard

Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) requires the detection of the specific time frame Cryptographic Operations (COs) takeplace in the side-channel signal. In laboratory conditions with full control over the Device under Test (DuT), dedicated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jens Trautmann , Nikolaos Patsiatzis , Andreas Becher , Jürgen Teich , Stefan Wildermann

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

In this work, we identify a set of side-channels in our Confidential Federated Compute platform that a hypothetical insider could exploit to circumvent differential privacy (DP) guarantees. We show how DP can mitigate two of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 James Bell-Clark , Albert Cheu , Adria Gascon , Jonathan Katz

Website fingerprinting attacks, which use statistical analysis on network traffic to compromise user privacy, have been shown to be effective even if the traffic is sent over anonymity-preserving networks such as Tor. The classical attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-22 Anatoly Shusterman , Lachlan Kang , Yarden Haskal , Yosef Meltser , Prateek Mittal , Yossi Oren , Yuval Yarom

Modern processors are highly optimized systems where every single cycle of computation time matters. Many optimizations depend on the data that is being processed. Software-based microarchitectural attacks exploit effects of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Daniel Gruss

Recent studies have shown that aggregate CPU usage and power consumption traces on smartphones can leak information about applications running on the system or websites visited. In response, access to such data has been blocked for mobile…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Nikolay Matyunin , Yujue Wang , Tolga Arul , Kristian Kullmann , Jakub Szefer , Stefan Katzenbeisser

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 have become prominent attack surfaces in cyberspace. Attackers use the side information generated by the system while performing a task. Among the various side-channel attacks, cache side-channel attacks are leading as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ankit Pulkit , Smita Naval , Vijay Laxmi

Power side-channel (PSC) attacks are widely used in embedded microcontrollers, particularly in cryptographic applications, to extract sensitive information. However, expanding the applications of PSC attacks to broader security contexts in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Pouya Narimani , Meng Wang , Ulysse Planta , Ali Abbasi

Mathematically-secure cryptographic algorithms leak significant side channel information through their power supplies when implemented on a physical platform. These side channel leakages can be exploited by an attacker to extract the secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Archisman Ghosh , Debayan Das , Shreyas Sen