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Power side channel is a very important category of side channels, which can be exploited to steal confidential information from a computing system by analyzing its power consumption. In this paper, we demonstrate the existence of various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Lin Yan , Yao Guo , Xiangqun Chen , Hong Mei

GPUs are increasingly being used in security applications, especially for accelerating encryption/decryption. While GPUs are an attractive platform in terms of performance, the security of these devices raises a number of concerns. One…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Elmira Karimi , Yunsi Fei , David Kaeli

We present a new hardware-agnostic side-channel attack that targets one of the most fundamental software caches in modern computer systems: the operating system page cache. The page cache is a pure software cache that contains all…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Daniel Gruss , Erik Kraft , Trishita Tiwari , Michael Schwarz , Ari Trachtenberg , Jason Hennessey , Alex Ionescu , Anders Fogh

The massive trend toward embedded systems introduces new security threats to prevent. Malicious firmware makes it easier to launch cyberattacks against embedded systems. Systems infected with malicious firmware maintain the appearance of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Md Sadik Awal , Christopher Thompson , Md Tauhidur Rahman

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

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

With increasingly sophisticated cyber-adversaries able to access a wider repertoire of mechanisms to implant malware such as ransomware, CPU/GPU keyloggers, and stealthy kernel rootkits, there is an urgent need for techniques to detect and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Farshad Khorrami , Ramesh Karri , Prashanth Krishnamurthy

3D-stacked High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) architectures provide high-performance memory interactions to address the well-known performance challenge, namely the memory wall. However, these architectures are susceptible to thermal…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Mehdi Elahi , Mohamed R. Elshamy , Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy , Ahmad Patooghy

The security of computers is at risk because of information leaking through physical outputs such as power, temperature, or electromagnetic (EM) emissions. Attackers can use advanced signal measurement and analysis to recover sensitive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi , Sweta Yamini Pothukuchi , Petros Voulgaris , Alexander Schwing , Josep Torrellas

The high volume of data transmission between the edge sensor and the cloud processor leads to energy and throughput bottlenecks for resource-constrained edge devices focused on computer vision. Hence, researchers are investigating different…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Md Abdullah-Al Kaiser , Akhilesh R. Jaiswal

Screaming-channel attacks enable Electromagnetic (EM) Side-Channel Attacks (SCAs) at larger distances due to higher EM leakage energies than traditional SCAs, relaxing the requirement of close access to the victim. This attack can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jeremy Guillaume , Maxime Pelcat , Amor Nafkha , Ruben Salvador

Multi-GPU systems are becoming increasingly important in highperformance computing (HPC) and cloud infrastructure, providing acceleration for data-intensive applications, including machine learning workloads. These systems consist of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Yicheng Zhang , Ravan Nazaraliyev , Sankha Baran Dutta , Andres Marquez , Kevin Barker , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Side-channel attacks that leak sensitive information through a computing device's interaction with its physical environment have proven to be a severe threat to devices' security, particularly when adversaries have unfettered physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ileana Buhan , Lejla Batina , Yuval Yarom , Patrick Schaumont

In this paper, we propose a new type of side channel which is based on the ambient-light sensor employed in today's mobile devices. The pervasive usage of mobile devices, i.e., smartphones and tablet computers and their vast amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-05-16 Raphael Spreitzer

Mathematically-secure cryptographic algorithms leak significant side channel information through their power supplies when implemented on a physical platform. These side channel leakages can be exploited by an attacker to extract the secret…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Archisman Ghosh , Debayan Das , Shreyas Sen

Today, most embedded systems use Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling (DVFS) to minimize energy consumption and maximize performance. The DVFS technique works by regulating the important parameters that govern the amount of energy consumed…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-25 El Mehdi Benhani , Lilian Bossuet

Side-channel attacks are an unpredictable risk factor in cryptography. Therefore, continuous observations of physical leakages are essential to minimise vulnerabilities associated with cryptographic functions. Lightweight cryptography is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Nilupulee A. Gunathilake , Ahmed Al-Dubai , William J. Buchanan , Owen Lo

The browser history reveals highly sensitive information about users, such as financial status, health conditions, or political views. Private browsing modes and anonymity networks are consequently important tools to preserve the privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Berk Gulmezoglu , Andreas Zankl , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar

This paper shows that today's wireless charging interface is vulnerable to power side-channel attacks; a smartphone charging wirelessly leaks private information about its activity to the wireless charger (charging transmitter). We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Alexander S. La Cour , Khurram K. Afridi , G. Edward Suh

In recent years fingerprinting of various physical and logical devices has been proposed with the goal of uniquely identifying users or devices of mainstream IT systems such as PCs, Laptops and smart phones. On the other hand, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed , Aditya Mathur , Martin Ochoa