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Side-channel attacks are efficient attacks against cryptographic devices. They use only quantities observable from outside, such as the duration and the power consumption. Attacks against synchronous devices using electric observations are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-24 Philippe Hoogvorst , Sylvain Guilley , Sumanta Chaudhuri , Jean-Luc Danger , Taha Beyrouthy , Laurent Fesquet

Power side-channel attacks are a very effective cryptanalysis technique that can infer secret keys of security ICs by monitoring the power consumption. Since the emergence of practical attacks in the late 90s, they have been a major threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Lu Zhang , Luis Vega , Michael Taylor

Side-channel attacks are important security challenges as they reveal sensitive information about on-chip activities. Among such attacks, the thermal side-channel has been shown to disclose the activities of key functional blocks and even…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Dylan Stow , Russell Barnes , Eren Kurshan , Yuan Xie

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

This paper demonstrates a power analysis-based Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) attack on the SNOW-V encryption algorithm, which is a 5G mobile communication security standard candidate. Implemented on an STM32 microcontroller, power traces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Deepak , Rahul Balout , Anupam Golder , Suparna Kundu , Angshuman Karmakar , Debayan Das

Website Fingerprinting (WF) aims to deanonymize users on the Tor network by analyzing encrypted network traffic. Recent deep-learning-based attacks show high accuracy on undefended traces. However, they struggle against modern defenses that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Jiajun Gong , Wei Cai , Siyuan Liang , Zhong Guan , Tao Wang , Ee-Chien Chang

Side-Channel Attacks (SCAs) exploit data correla-tion in signals leaked from devices to jeopardize confidentiality. Locating and synchronizing segments of interest in traces from Cryptographic Processes (CPs) is a key step of the attack.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Jeremy Guillaume , Maxime Pelcat , Amor Nafkha , Rubén Salvador

Capacitive touchscreens in modern smartphones introduce severe side-channel vulnerabilities. However, existing attacks often require restrictive conditions or invasive measurements. This paper presents TESLA, a novel, contactless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yukun Cheng , Changhai Ou , Shiyu Zhu , Jinyuan Zhang , Zhenfang Qiu , Xingshuo Han , Tianwei Zhang , Yuan Li , Shihui Zheng

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

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

Device fingerprinting is a widely used technique that allows a third party to identify a particular device. Applications of device fingerprinting include authentication, attacker identification, or software license binding. Device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Alberto Fernandez-de-Retana , Igor Santos-Grueiro

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

Acoustic side-channel attacks on keyboards can bypass security measures in many systems that use keyboards as one of the input devices. These attacks aim to reveal users' sensitive information by targeting the sounds made by their keyboards…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Alireza Taheritajar , Reza Rahaeimehr

We systematize software side-channel attacks with a focus on vulnerabilities and countermeasures in the cryptographic implementations. Particularly, we survey past research literature to categorize vulnerable implementations, and identify…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Tianwei Zhang , Jun Jiang , Yinqian Zhang

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

Numerous previous works have studied deep learning algorithms applied in the context of side-channel attacks, which demonstrated the ability to perform successful key recoveries. These studies show that modern cryptographic devices are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruizhe Gu , Ping Wang , Mengce Zheng , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

Side-channel analysis (SCA) poses a real-world threat by exploiting unintentional physical signals to extract secret information from secure devices. Evaluation labs also use the same techniques to certify device security. In recent years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sengim Karayalçin , Marina Krček , Stjepan Picek

Embedded devices are increasingly present in our everyday life. They often process critical information, and hence, rely on cryptographic protocols to achieve security. However, embedded devices remain vulnerable to attackers seeking to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Rodothea Myrsini Tsoupidi , Elena Troubitsyna , Panagiotis Papadimitratos

Recent work has introduced attacks that extract the architecture information of deep neural networks (DNN), as this knowledge enhances an adversary's capability to conduct black-box attacks against the model. This paper presents the first…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Sanghyun Hong , Michael Davinroy , Yiǧitcan Kaya , Stuart Nevans Locke , Ian Rackow , Kevin Kulda , Dana Dachman-Soled , Tudor Dumitraş

To meet the ever-growing need for performance in silicon devices, SoC providers have been increasingly relying on software-hardware cooperation. By controlling hardware resources such as power or clock management from the software,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-03 Joseph Gravellier , Jean-Max Dutertre , Yannick Teglia , Philippe Loubet Moundi