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Information leaks through side channels are a pervasive problem, even in security-critical applications. Functional side channels arise when an attacker knows that a secret value of a server stays fixed for a certain time. Then, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Saeid Tizpaz-Niari , Pavol Cerny , Ashutosh Trivedi

The trend toward a highly mobile workforce and the ubiquity of graphical interfaces (such as the stylus and touch-screen) has enabled the emergence of graphical authentications in Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) [1]. However, most of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-06-03 Xiyang Liu , Zhongjie Ren , Xiuling Chang , Haichang Gao , Uwe Aickelin

Given the constant rise in utilizing embedded devices in daily life, side channels remain a challenge to information flow control and security in such systems. One such important security flaw could be exploited through temperature…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Somdip Dey , Amit Kumar Singh , Xiaohang Wang , Klaus Dieter McDonald-Maier

Various side-channel attacks (SCAs) on ICs have been successfully demonstrated and also mitigated to some degree. In the context of 3D ICs, however, prior art has mainly focused on efficient implementations of classical SCA countermeasures.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu

Modern x86 processors support an AVX instruction set to boost performance. However, this extension may cause security issues. We discovered that there are vulnerable properties in implementing masked load/store instructions. Based on this,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hyunwoo Choi , Suryeon Kim , Seungwon Shin

Compression algorithms are widely used as they save memory without losing data. However, elimination of redundant symbols and sequences in data leads to a compression side channel. So far, compression attacks have only focused on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Martin Schwarzl , Pietro Borrello , Gururaj Saileshwar , Hanna Müller , Michael Schwarz , Daniel Gruss

Side-channel information leakage is a known limitation of SGX. Researchers have demonstrated that secret-dependent information can be extracted from enclave execution through page-fault access patterns. Consequently, various recent research…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-02-27 Ferdinand Brasser , Urs Müller , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Kari Kostiainen , Srdjan Capkun , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

Users' website browsing history contains sensitive information, like health conditions, political interests, financial situations, etc. Some recent studies have demonstrated the possibility of inferring website fingerprints based on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Han Wang

We propose FPGA-Patch, the first-of-its-kind defense that leverages automated program repair concepts to thwart power side-channel attacks on cloud FPGAs. FPGA-Patch generates isofunctional variants of the target hardware by injecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Mahya Morid Ahmadi , Lilas Alrahis , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Muhammad Shafique

Due to the constant increase and versatility of IoT devices that should keep sensitive information private, Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) attacks on embedded devices are gaining visibility in the industrial field. The integration and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Unai Rioja , Lejla Batina , Jose Luis Flores , Igor Armendariz

Recent studies have shown that Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are susceptible to adversarial attacks, with frequency-domain analysis underscoring the significance of high-frequency components in influencing model predictions. Conversely,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Juanjuan Weng , Zhiming Luo , Shaozi Li

Static side-channel analysis attacks, which rely on a stopped clock to extract sensitive information, pose a growing threat to embedded systems' security. To protect against such attacks, several proposed defenses aim to detect unexpected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Kyle Mitard , Saleh Khalaj Monfared , Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana , Robert Dumitru , Yuval Yarom , Shahin Tajik

In this paper, we present an acoustic side channel attack which makes use of smartphone microphones recording a robot in operation to exploit acoustic properties of the sound to fingerprint a robot's movements. In this work we consider the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Ryan Shah , Mujeeb Ahmed , Shishir Nagaraja

Recent research has demonstrated that Intel's SGX is vulnerable to software-based side-channel attacks. In a common attack, the adversary monitors CPU caches to infer secret-dependent data accesses patterns. Known defenses have major…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Ferdinand Brasser , Srdjan Capkun , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Tommaso Frassetto , Kari Kostiainen , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

A large number of crypto accelerators are being deployed with the widespread adoption of IoT. It is vitally important that these accelerators and other security hardware IPs are provably secure. Security is an extra functional requirement…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Xinhui Lai , Maksim Jenihhin , Jaan Raik , Kolin Paul

Power side-channel attacks (SCAs) have become a major concern to the security community due to their non-invasive feature, low-cost, and effectiveness in extracting secret information from hardware implementation of cryto algorithms.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Miao , He , Jungmin Park , Adib Nahiyan , Apostol Vassilev , Yier Jin , Mark Tehranipoor

The recent discovery of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks represents a watershed moment not just for the field of Computer Security, but also of Programming Languages. This paper explores speculative side-channel attacks and their…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Ross Mcilroy , Jaroslav Sevcik , Tobias Tebbi , Ben L. Titzer , Toon Verwaest

Side-channel analysis (SCA) can obtain information related to the secret key by exploiting leakages produced by the device. Researchers recently found that neural networks (NNs) can execute a powerful profiling SCA, even on targets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Fiske Schijlen , Lichao Wu , Luca Mariot

We introduce the first microarchitectural side channel attacks that leverage contention on the CPU ring interconnect. There are two challenges that make it uniquely difficult to exploit this channel. First, little is known about the ring…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Riccardo Paccagnella , Licheng Luo , Christopher W. Fletcher

In recent years, there have been several works that use website fingerprinting techniques to enable a local adversary to determine which website a Tor user visits. While the current state-of-the-art attack, which uses deep learning,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Sanjit Bhat , David Lu , Albert Kwon , Srinivas Devadas