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Cache side-channel attacks lead to severe security threats to the settings that a CPU is shared across users, e.g., in the cloud. The existing attacks rely on sensing the micro-architectural state changes made by victims, and this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Junpeng Wan , Yanxiang Bi , Zhe Zhou , Zhou Li

Advanced packaging and chiplet-based integration are increasingly adopted to build complex heterogeneous systems beyond the limits of monolithic scaling. While these architectures offer major benefits in terms of modularity, yield, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Giorgio Di Natale , Christelle Rabache , Pierre-Louis Hellier , Florence Podevin , Sylvain Bourdel , Romain Siragusa , Paolo Maistri

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

Edge-caching has received much attention as an efficient technique to reduce delivery latency and network congestion during peak-traffic times by bringing data closer to end users. Existing works usually design caching algorithms separately…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-02-08 Thang X. Vu , Symeon Chatzinotas , Bjorn Ottersten

Side-channel attacks, which are capable of breaking secrecy via side-channel information, pose a growing threat to the implementation of cryptographic algorithms. Masking is an effective countermeasure against side-channel attacks by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Pengfei Gao , Hongyi Xie , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

Modern microarchitectures incorporate optimization techniques such as speculative loads and store forwarding to improve the memory bottleneck. The processor executes the load speculatively before the stores, and forwards the data of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Saad Islam , Ahmad Moghimi , Ida Bruhns , Moritz Krebbel , Berk Gulmezoglu , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar

In advanced jamming, the adversary intentionally concentrates the available energy budget on specific critical components (e.g., pilot symbols, acknowledgement packets, etc.) to (i) increase the jamming effectiveness, as more targets can be…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Liyang Zhang , Francesco Restuccia , Tommaso Melodia , Scott M. Pudleswki

Timing channels are information flows, encoded in the relative timing of events, that bypass the system's protection mechanisms. Any microarchitectural state that depends on execution history and affects the rate of progress of later…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Qian Ge , Yuval Yarom , Frank Li , Gernot Heiser

Recent security vulnerabilities that target speculative execution (e.g., Spectre) present a significant challenge for processor design. The highly publicized vulnerability uses speculative execution to learn victim secrets by changing cache…

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

The deep learning revolution has been enabled in large part by GPUs, and more recently accelerators, which make it possible to carry out computationally demanding training and inference in acceptable times. As the size of machine learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Sankha Baran Dutta , Hoda Naghibijouybari , Arjun Gupta , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , Andres Marquez , Kevin Barker

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

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

This study evaluates the application of predictive analytics for real-time cyber-attack detection and response, focusing on how statistical and machine learning methods can improve decision-making in Security Operations Centers (SOCs).…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Muhammad Danish

Attacks on the microarchitecture of modern processors have become a practical threat to security and privacy in desktop and cloud computing. Recently, cache attacks have successfully been demonstrated on ARM based mobile devices, suggesting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Marc Green , Leandro Rodrigues-Lima , Andreas Zankl , Gorka Irazoqui , Johann Heyszl , Thomas Eisenbarth

In this work we consider the communication of information in the presence of a causal adversarial jammer. In the setting under study, a sender wishes to communicate a message to a receiver by transmitting a codeword $(x_1,...,x_n)$…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Bikash Kumar Dey , Sidharth Jaggi , Michael Langberg , Anand D. Sarwate

Over the past decade, the bulk of wireless traffic has shifted from speech to content. This shift creates the opportunity to cache part of the content in memories closer to the end users, for example in base stations. Most of the prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Urs Niesen

DRAM chips are vulnerable to read disturbance phenomena (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing or keeping open a DRAM row causes bitflips in nearby rows. Attackers leverage RowHammer bitflips in real systems to take over…

A cache-aided broadcast network is studied, in which a server delivers contents to a group of receivers over a packet erasure broadcast channel (BC). The receivers are divided into two sets with regards to their channel qualities: the weak…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-02 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Deniz Gunduz

In high performance computing, researchers try to optimize the CPU Scheduling algorithms, for faster and efficient working of computers. But a process needs both CPU bound and I/O bound for completion of its execution. With modernization of…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Amar Ranjan Dash , Sandipta Kumar Sahu , B Kewal