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In-memory computing (IMC) systems have great potential for accelerating data-intensive tasks such as deep neural networks (DNNs). As DNN models are generally highly proprietary, the neural network architectures become valuable targets for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Ziyu Wang , Fan-hsuan Meng , Yongmo Park , Jason K. Eshraghian , Wei D. Lu

With the outsourcing of design flow, ensuring the security and trustworthiness of integrated circuits has become more challenging. Among the security threats, IC counterfeiting and recycled ICs have received a lot of attention due to their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ashkan Vakil , Farzad Niknia , Ali Mirzaeian , Avesta Sasan , Naghmeh Karimi

While side-channel leakage is traditionally evaluated from a fabricated chip, it is more time-efficient and cost-effective to do so during the design phase of the chip. We present a methodology to rank the gates of a design according to…

Differential Power Analysis (DPA) has been an active area of research for the past two decades to study the attacks for extracting secret information from cryptographic implementations through power measurements and their defenses.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Anuj Dubey , Rosario Cammarota , Aydin Aysu

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

To make cryptographic processors more resilient against side-channel attacks, engineers have developed various countermeasures. However, the effectiveness of these countermeasures is often uncertain, as it depends on the complex interplay…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Elie Bursztein , Luca Invernizzi , Karel Král , Daniel Moghimi , Jean-Michel Picod , Marina Zhang

Background and Objectives: Substitution-box (s-box) is one of the essential components to create confusion and nonlinear properties in cryptography. To strengthening a cipher against various attacks, including side channel attacks, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Behrooz Khadem , Saeed Rajavzade

Side-channel analysis (SCA) can obtain information related to the secret key by exploiting leakages produced by the device. Researchers recently found that neural networks (NNs) can execute a powerful profiling SCA, even on targets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Fiske Schijlen , Lichao Wu , Luca Mariot

Self-supervised learning (SSL) plays a central role in molecular representation learning. Yet, many recent innovations in masking-based pretraining are introduced as heuristics and lack principled evaluation, obscuring which design choices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiannan Yang , Veronika Thost , Tengfei Ma

The increasing demand for connected vehicular services poses significant challenges for AI-based network and service management due to the high volume and rapid variability of network state information. Traditional management and control…

Machine learning has become mainstream across industries. Numerous examples proved the validity of it for security applications. In this work, we investigate how to reverse engineer a neural network by using only power side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Lejla Batina , Shivam Bhasin , Dirmanto Jap , Stjepan Picek

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

Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) are quickly gaining traction as a viable alternative to Deep Neural Networks (DNN). In comparison to DNNs, SNNs are more computationally powerful and provide superior energy efficiency. SNNs, while exciting at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Karthikeyan Nagarajan , Junde Li , Sina Sayyah Ensan , Mohammad Nasim Imtiaz Khan , Sachhidh Kannan , Swaroop Ghosh

Profiled side-channel analysis (SCA) leverages leakage from cryptographic implementations to extract the secret key. When combined with advanced methods in neural networks (NNs), profiled SCA can successfully attack even those crypto-cores…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Rabin Yu Acharya , Fatemeh Ganji , Domenic Forte

Side-channel attacks have become prominent attack surfaces in cyberspace. Attackers use the side information generated by the system while performing a task. Among the various side-channel attacks, cache side-channel attacks are leading as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ankit Pulkit , Smita Naval , Vijay Laxmi

Fault injection attacks (FIA) pose significant security threats to embedded systems as they exploit weaknesses across multiple layers, including system software, instruction set architecture (ISA), microarchitecture, and physical hardware.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Arsalan Ali Malik , Harshvadan Mihir , Aydin Aysu

Side-channel attacks have become a severe threat to the confidentiality of computer applications and systems. One popular type of such attacks is the microarchitectural attack, where the adversary exploits the hardware features to break the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Xiaoxuan Lou , Tianwei Zhang , Jun Jiang , Yinqian Zhang

Over the past few years, deep learning has been getting progressively more popular for the exploitation of side-channel vulnerabilities in embedded cryptographic applications, as it offers advantages in terms of the amount of attack traces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Yohaï-Eliel Berreby , Laurent Sauvage

Detecting weaknesses in cryptographic algorithms is of utmost importance for designing secure information systems. The state-of-the-art soft analytical side-channel attack (SASCA) uses physical leakage information to make probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Thomas Wedenig , Rishub Nagpal , Gaëtan Cassiers , Stefan Mangard , Robert Peharz

The threats of physical side-channel attacks and their countermeasures have been widely researched. Most physical side-channel attacks rely on the unavoidable influence of computation or storage on current consumption or voltage drop on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Saleh Khalaj Monfared , Tahoura Mosavirik , Shahin Tajik