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Trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide an environment for running workloads in the cloud without having to trust cloud service providers, by offering additional hardware-assisted security guarantees. However, main memory encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jan Wichelmann , Anna Pätschke , Luca Wilke , Thomas Eisenbarth

Side-channel attacks have empowered bypassing of cryptographic components in circuits. Power side-channel (PSC) attacks have received particular traction, owing to their non-invasiveness and proven effectiveness. Aside from prior art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Johann Knechtel , Satwik Patnaik , Mohammed Nabeel , Mohammed Ashraf , Yogesh S. Chauhan , Jörg Henkel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Hussam Amrouch

Despite extensive testing and correctness certification of their functional semantics, a number of compiler optimizations have been shown to violate security guarantees implemented in source code. While prior work has shed light on how such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Michael D. Brown , Matthew Pruett , Robert Bigelow , Girish Mururu , Santosh Pande

In this paper, we consider that, in practice, attack scenarios involving side-channel analysis combine two successive phases:an analysis phase, targeting the extraction of information about the target and the identification of possible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Lionel Morel , Damien Couroussé , Thomas Hiscock

Dynamic partial reconfiguration enables multi-tenancy in cloud-based FPGAs, which presents security challenges for tenants, IPs, and data. Malicious users can exploit FPGAs for remote side-channel attacks (SCAs), and shared on-chip…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Mahya Morid Ahmadi , Faiq Khalid , Radha Vaidya , Florian Kriebel , Andreas Steininger , Muhammad Shafique

Recently, many profiling side-channel attacks based on Machine Learning and Deep Learning have been proposed. Most of them focus on reducing the number of traces required for successful attacks by optimizing the modeling algorithms. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Ping Wang , Ping Chen , Zhimin Luo , Gaofeng Dong , Mengce Zheng , Nenghai Yu , Honggang Hu

Developers rely on constant-time programming to prevent timing side-channel attacks. But these efforts can be undone by compilers, whose optimizations may silently reintroduce leaks. While recent works have measured the extent of such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Antoine Geimer , Clementine Maurice

Hardware Trojans have drawn the attention of academia, industry and government agencies. Effective detection mechanisms and countermeasures against such malicious designs can only be developed when there is a deep understanding of how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Samaneh Ghandali , Thorben Moos , Amir Moradi , Christof Paar

Multi-process concurrency is effective in improving program efficiency and maximizing CPU utilization. The correct execution of concurrency is ensured by the mutual exclusion and synchronization mechanism (MESM) that manages the shared…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Chaoqun Shen , Jiliang Zhang , Gang Qu

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

Attacks based on side-channel analysis (SCA) pose a severe security threat to modern computing platforms, further exacerbated on IoT devices by their pervasiveness and handling of private and critical data. Designing SCA-resistant computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Davide Zoni , Andrea Galimberti , Davide Galli

Timing side channels have been used to extract cryptographic keys and sensitive documents, even from trusted enclaves. In this paper, we focus on cache side channels created by access to shared code or data in the memory hierarchy. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Divya Ojha , Sandhya Dwarkadas

To protect cryptographic implementations from side-channel vulnerabilities, developers must adopt constant-time programming practices. As these can be error-prone, many side-channel detection tools have been proposed. Despite this, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Antoine Geimer , Mathéo Vergnolle , Frédéric Recoules , Lesly-Ann Daniel , Sébastien Bardin , Clémentine Maurice

Traditionally, power side-channel analysis requires physical access to the target device, as well as specialized devices to measure the power consumption with enough precision. Recently research has shown that on x86 platforms, on-chip…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Nikhil Chawla , Chen Liu , Abhishek Chakraborty , Igor Chervatyuk , Ke Sun , Thais Moreira Hamasaki , Henrique Kawakami

Side-channel attacks on memory (SCAM) exploit unintended data leaks from memory subsystems to infer sensitive information, posing significant threats to system security. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in memory access patterns, cache…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 MD Mahady Hassan , Shanto Roy , Reza Rahaeimehr

The subblock energy-constrained codes (SECCs) and sliding window-constrained codes (SWCCs) have recently attracted attention due to various applications in communcation systems such as simultaneous energy and information transfer. In a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Tuan Thanh Nguyen , Kui Cai , Kees A. Schouhamer Immink

Fault injection attacks deliberately inject faults into a device via physical channels to disturb its regular execution. Adversaries can effectively deduce secrets by analyzing both the normal and faulty outputs, posing serious threats to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xi Yang , Taolue Chen , Yuqi Chen , Fu Song , Chundong Wang , Zhilin Wu

In this paper we analyse the impact of different compile options on the success rate of side-channel analysis attacks. We run horizontal differential side-channel attacks against simulated power traces for the same $kP$ design synthesized…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Ievgen Kabin , Zoya Dyka , Dan Klann , Peter Langendoerfer

One of the most prevalent source of side channel vulnerabilities is the secret-dependent behavior of conditional branches (SDBCB). The state-of-the-art solution relies on Constant-Time Expressions, which require high programming effort and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Andrea Mondelli , Paul Gazzillo , Yan Solihin

Microarchitectural side channel attacks have been very prominent in security research over the last few years. Caches have been an outstanding covert channel, as they provide high resolution and generic cross-core leakage even with simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Samira Briongos , Ida Bruhns , Pedro Malagón , Thomas Eisenbarth , José M. Moya