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Network slicing in 5G and the future 6G networks will enable the creation of multiple virtualized networks on a shared physical infrastructure. This innovative approach enables the provision of tailored networks to accommodate specific…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Wei Shao , Chandra Thapa , Rayne Holland , Sarah Ali Siddiqui , Seyit Camtepe

This paper presents a digital VLSI design flow to create secure, side-channel attack (SCA) resistant integrated circuits. The design flow starts from a normal design in a hardware description language such as VHDL or Verilog and provides a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Kris Tiri , Ingrid Verbauwhede

New speculation-based attacks that affect large numbers of modern systems are disclosed regularly. Currently, CPU vendors regularly fall back to heavy-handed mitigations like using barriers or enforcing strict programming guidelines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ali Hajiabadi , Archit Agarwal , Andreas Diavastos , Trevor E. Carlson

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

Scalar multiplication kP is a critical operation in Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems (ECC), often targeted by Side-Channel Analysis (SCA). Despite strategies based on atomic patterns to enhance security, the binary kP algorithms remain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Alkistis Aikaterini Sigourou , Zoya Dyka , Peter Langendoerfer , Ievgen Kabin

To defeat side-channel attacks, many recent countermeasures work by enforcing random run-time variability to the target computing platform in terms of clock jitters, frequency and voltage scaling, and phase shift, also combining the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Davide Galli , Adriano Guarisco , William Fornaciari , Matteo Matteucci , Davide Zoni

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

Evolving attacks on the vulnerabilities of the computing systems demand novel defense strategies to keep pace with newer attacks. This report discusses previous works on side-channel attacks (SCAs) and defenses for cache-targeted and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Abhijitt Dhavlle

Neural network models implemented in embedded devices have been shown to be susceptible to side-channel attacks (SCAs), allowing recovery of proprietary model parameters, such as weights and biases. There are already available…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Leonard Puškáč , Marek Benovič , Jakub Breier , Xiaolu Hou

Multimedia fingerprinting is a technique to protect the copyrighted contents against being illegally redistributed under various collusion attack models. Averaging attack is the most fair choice for each colluder to avoid detection, and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Jing Jiang , Cailin Wen , Minquan Cheng

Physical side-channel attacks can compromise the security of integrated circuits. Most physical side-channel attacks (e.g., power or electromagnetic) exploit the dynamic behavior of a chip, typically manifesting as changes in current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Saleh Khalaj Monfared , Domenic Forte , Shahin Tajik

CRYSTALS-Kyber has been standardized as the only key-encapsulation mechanism (KEM) scheme by NIST to withstand attacks by large-scale quantum computers. However, the side-channel attacks (SCAs) on its implementation are still needed to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dejun Xu , Kai Wang , Jing Tian

Devices employing cryptographic approaches have to be resistant to physical attacks. Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) and Fault Injection (FI) attacks are frequently used to reveal cryptographic keys. In this paper, we present a combined SCA and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Dmytro Petryk , Ievgen Kabin , Peter Langendoerfer , Zoya Dyka

Intel SGX is known to be vulnerable to a class of practical attacks exploiting memory access pattern side-channels, notably page-fault attacks and cache timing attacks. A promising hardening scheme is to wrap applications in hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Yuzhe Tang , Kai Li , Yibo Wang , Jiaqi Chen , Cheng Xu

This dissertation considers new constructions and decoding approaches for error-correcting codes based on non-conventional polynomials, with the objective of providing new coding solutions to the applications mentioned above. With skew…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Hedongliang Liu

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

As cache-based side-channel attacks become serious security problems, various defenses have been proposed and deployed in both software and hardware. Consequently, cache-based side-channel attacks on processes co-residing on the same core…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Wei Song , Rui Hou , Peng Liu , Xiaoxin Li , Peinan Li , Lutan Zhao , Xiaofei Fu , Yifei Sun , Dan Meng

Implementation attacks like side-channel and fault attacks pose a considerable threat to cryptographic devices that are physically accessible by an attacker. As a consequence, devices like smart cards implement corresponding countermeasures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Vedad Hadzic , Robert Primas , Roderick Bloem

Side-channel and fault injection attacks reveal secret information by monitoring or manipulating the physical effects of computations involving secret variables. Circuit-level countermeasures help to deter these attacks, and traditionally…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Yuan Yao , Pantea Kiaei , Richa Singh , Shahin Tajik , Patrick Schaumont

The vulnerability of machine learning systems to adversarial attacks questions their usage in many applications. In this paper, we propose a randomized diversification as a defense strategy. We introduce a multi-channel architecture in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Olga Taran , Shideh Rezaeifar , Taras Holotyak , Slava Voloshynovskiy