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Performing a comprehensive side-channel analysis evaluation of small embedded devices is a process known for its variability and complexity. In real-world experimental setups, the results are largely influenced by a huge amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Unai Rioja , Servio Paguada , Lejla Batina , Igor Armendariz

The implementations of most hardened cryptographic libraries use defensive programming techniques for side-channel resistance. These techniques are usually specified as guidelines to developers on specific code patterns to use or avoid.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Moritz Schneider , Daniele Lain , Ivan Puddu , Nicolas Dutly , Srdjan Capkun

Power side-channel attacks exploit the dynamic power consumption of cryptographic operations to leak sensitive information of encryption hardware. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct power side-channel analysis for assessing the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Amisha Srivastava , Sanjay Das , Navnil Choudhury , Rafail Psiakis , Pedro Henrique Silva , Debjit Pal , Kanad Basu

We propose a modification to the transpiler of a quantum computer to safeguard against side-channel attacks aimed at learning information about a quantum circuit. We demonstrate that if it is feasible to shield a specific subset of gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Jason T. LeGrow , Travis Morrison , Jamie Sikora , Nicolas Swanson

Existing tools to detect side-channel attacks on Intel SGX are grounded on the observation that attacks affect the performance of the victim application. As such, all detection tools monitor the potential victim and raise an alarm if the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Jianyu Jiang , Claudio Soriente , Ghassan Karame

Cryptography is vital for data security, but cryptographic algorithms can still be vulnerable to side-channel attacks (SCAs), physical assaults exploiting power consumption and EM radiation. SCAs pose a significant threat to cryptographic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Muhammad Rusyaidi Zunaidi , Asanka Sayakkara , Mark Scanlon

Power side-channel attacks (SCAs) have become a major concern to the security community due to their non-invasive feature, low-cost, and effectiveness in extracting secret information from hardware implementation of cryto algorithms.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Miao , He , Jungmin Park , Adib Nahiyan , Apostol Vassilev , Yier Jin , Mark Tehranipoor

Adversarial evasion attacks have been very successful in causing poor performance in a wide variety of machine learning applications. One such application is radio frequency spectrum sensing. While evasion attacks have proven particularly…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-21 Matthew DelVecchio , Vanessa Arndorfer , William C. Headley

Searchable Symmetric Encryption (SSE) allows users to search over encrypted data stored on untrusted servers, like cloud providers. While SSE hides the content of queries and documents, it still leaks patterns, such as how often a query is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chinecherem Dimobi

We study side-channel attacks for the Shannon cipher system. To pose side channel-attacks to the Shannon cipher system, we regard them as a signal estimation via encoded data from two distributed sensors. This can be formulated as the one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Yasutada Oohama , Bagus Santoso

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

Neural networks have become a fundamental component of numerous practical applications, and their implementations, which are often accelerated by hardware, are integrated into all types of real-world physical devices. User interactions with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Zhuoran Liu , Senna van Hoek , Péter Horváth , Dirk Lauret , Xiaoyun Xu , Lejla Batina

Formal verification of power side-channel leakage and its countermeasures in cryptographic algorithms is challenging, as SAT-based methods fail to scale on XOR-heavy, time-unrolled cryptographic circuits with realistic leakage models. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Walid El Maouaki , Alberto Marchisio , Muhammad Shafique

Mobile devices often distribute measurements from physical sensors to multiple applications using software multiplexing. On Android devices, the highest requested sampling frequency is returned to all applications, even if others request…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Carlton Shepherd , Jan Kalbantner , Benjamin Semal , Konstantinos Markantonakis

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

Spin Transfer Torque RAM (STTRAM) is a promising candidate for Last Level Cache (LLC) due to high endurance, high density and low leakage. One of the major disadvantages of STTRAM is high write latency and write current. Additionally, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Nitin Rathi , Helia Naeimi , Swaroop Ghosh

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) is a non-invasive technique widely used for understanding charge transfer and charge transport processes in electrochemical systems and devices. Standard approaches for the interpretation of EIS…

This paper considers a method of coding the sensor outputs in order to detect stealthy false data injection attacks. An intelligent attacker can design a sequence of data injection to sensors and actuators that pass the state estimator and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Fei Miao , Quanyan Zhu , Miroslav Pajic , George J. Pappas

Side channels represent a broad class of security vulnerabilities that have been demonstrated to exist in many applications. Because completely eliminating side channels often leads to prohibitively high overhead, there is a need for a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Benjamin Wu , Aaron B. Wagner , G. Edward Suh

During the last decade, Deep Neural Networks (DNN) have progressively been integrated on all types of platforms, from data centers to embedded systems including low-power processors and, recently, FPGAs. Neural Networks (NN) are expected to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Maria Méndez Real , Rubén Salvador