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We present a software approach to mitigate access-driven side-channel attacks that leverage last-level caches (LLCs) shared across cores to leak information between security domains (e.g., tenants in a cloud). Our approach dynamically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-18 Ziqiao Zhou , Michael K. Reiter , Yinqian Zhang

Side channel attacks steal secret keys by cleverly leveraging information leakages and can, therefore, break encryption. Thus, detection and mitigation of side channel attacks is a very important problem, but the solutions proposed in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Sharjeel Khan , Girish Mururu , Santosh Pande

Operating Systems enforce logical isolation using abstractions such as processes, containers, and isolation technologies to protect a system from malicious or buggy code. In this paper, we show new types of side channels through the file…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Cheng Gu , Yicheng Zhang , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Side-channel attacks exploit unintended information leakage from system behavior and continue to pose serious privacy risks in modern platforms. Despite extensive prior work, side-channel analysis remains largely manual and fragmented,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhen Xu , Zihao Wang , Yuhua Sun , XiaoFeng Wang

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

As the use of large language models (LLMs) continues to expand, ensuring their safety and robustness has become a critical challenge. In particular, jailbreak attacks that bypass built-in safety mechanisms are increasingly recognized as a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Hajun Kim , Hyunsik Na , Daeseon Choi

Micro-architectural attacks use information leaked through shared resources to break hardware-enforced isolation. These attacks have been used to steal private information ranging from cryptographic keys to privileged Operating System (OS)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Nikhilesh Singh , Chester Rebeiro

The transient-execution attack Meltdown leaks sensitive information by transiently accessing inaccessible data during out-of-order execution. Although Meltdown is fixed in hardware for recent CPU generations, most currently-deployed CPUs…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-09 Daniel Weber , Fabian Thomas , Lukas Gerlach , Ruiyi Zhang , Michael Schwarz

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into web-based systems for content summarization, yet their susceptibility to prompt injection attacks remains a pressing concern. In this study, we explore how non-visible HTML…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Ishaan Verma , Arsheya Yadav

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated superior performance compared to previous methods on various tasks, and often serve as the foundation models for many researches and services. However, the untrustworthy third-party LLMs may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Hai Huang , Zhengyu Zhao , Michael Backes , Yun Shen , Yang Zhang

This paper proposes LATTE, the first static binary taint analysis that is powered by a large language model (LLM). LATTE is superior to the state of the art (e.g., Emtaint, Arbiter, Karonte) in three aspects. First, LATTE is fully automated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Puzhuo Liu , Chengnian Sun , Yaowen Zheng , Xuan Feng , Chuan Qin , Yuncheng Wang , Zhenyang Xu , Zhi Li , Peng Di , Yu Jiang , Limin Sun

Side-channel attacks are a major threat to the security of cryptographic implementations, particularly for small devices that are under the physical control of the adversary. While several strategies for protecting against side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Madura A. Shelton , Łukasz Chmielewski , Niels Samwel , Markus Wagner , Lejla Batina , Yuval Yarom

Open-source code is pervasive. In this setting, embedded vulnerabilities are spreading to downstream software at an alarming rate. While such vulnerabilities are generally identified and addressed rapidly, inconsistent maintenance policies…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xunzhu Tang , Zhenghan Chen , Kisub Kim , Haoye Tian , Saad Ezzini , Jacques Klein

Cache-based side channels enable a dedicated attacker to reveal program secrets by measuring the cache access patterns. Practical attacks have been shown against real-world crypto algorithm implementations such as RSA, AES, and ElGamal. By…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Shuai Wang , Yuyan Bao , Xiao Liu , Pei Wang , Danfeng Zhang , Dinghao Wu

Spectre attacks disclosed in early 2018 expose data leakage scenarios via cache side channels. Specifically, speculatively executed paths due to branch mis-prediction may bring secret data into the cache which are then exposed via cache…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Guanhua Wang , Sudipta Chattopadhyay , Arnab Kumar Biswas , Tulika Mitra , Abhik Roychoudhury

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly trusted to perform automated code review and static analysis at scale, supporting tasks such as vulnerability detection, summarization, and refactoring. In this paper, we identify and exploit a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Shir Bernstein , David Beste , Daniel Ayzenshteyn , Lea Schonherr , Yisroel Mirsky

The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) in critical domains has spurred extensive research into their security issues. While input manipulation attacks (e.g., prompt injection) have been well studied, Bit-Flip Attacks (BFAs) --…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Haotian Xu , Qingsong Peng , Jie Shi , Huadi Zheng , Yu Li , Cheng Zhuo

Various studies among side-channel attacks have tried to extract information through leakages from electronic devices to reach the instruction flow of some appliances. However, previous methods highly depend on the resolution of traced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-15 Pouya Narimani , Seyed Amin Habibi , Mohammad Ali Akhaee

Large Language Models face an emerging and critical threat known as latency attacks. Because LLM inference is inherently expensive, even modest slowdowns can translate into substantial operating costs and severe availability risks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tianyi Wang , Huawei Fan , Yuanchao Shu , Peng Cheng , Cong Wang