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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

Side-channel attacks pose significant challenges to the security of embedded systems, often allowing attackers to circumvent encryption algorithms in minutes compared to the trillions of years required for brute-force attacks. To mitigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Gabriel Klasson Landin , Truls Jilborg

Static side-channel analysis attacks, which rely on a stopped clock to extract sensitive information, pose a growing threat to embedded systems' security. To protect against such attacks, several proposed defenses aim to detect unexpected…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Kyle Mitard , Saleh Khalaj Monfared , Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana , Robert Dumitru , Yuval Yarom , Shahin Tajik

This paper presents an approach for side channel cryptanalysis with iterative approximate Bayesian inference, based on sequential decoding methods. Reliability information about subkey hypotheses is generated in the form of likelihoods, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Andreas Ibing

Compression algorithms are widely used as they save memory without losing data. However, elimination of redundant symbols and sequences in data leads to a compression side channel. So far, compression attacks have only focused on the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Martin Schwarzl , Pietro Borrello , Gururaj Saileshwar , Hanna Müller , Michael Schwarz , Daniel Gruss

Secret-dependent timing behavior in cryptographic implementations has resulted in exploitable vulnerabilities, undermining their security. Over the years, numerous tools to automatically detect timing leakage or even to prove their absence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Jan Wichelmann , Florian Sieck , Anna Pätschke , Thomas Eisenbarth

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

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

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

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

Timing side-channel attacks exploit secret-dependent execution time to fully or partially recover secrets of cryptographic implementations, posing a severe threat to software security. Constant-time programming discipline is an effective…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Luwei Cai , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

Microarchitectural timing attacks exploit subtle timing variations caused by hardware behaviors to leak sensitive information. In this paper, we introduce MCHammer, a novel side-channel technique that leverages machine clears induced by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Billy Bob Brumley

Side-channel attacks (SCAs), which infer secret information (for example secret keys) by exploiting information that leaks from the implementation (such as power consumption), have been shown to be a non-negligible threat to modern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shan Jin , Minghua Xu , Yiwei Cai

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide an environment for running workloads in the cloud without having to trust cloud service providers, by offering additional hardware-assisted security guarantees. However, main memory encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jan Wichelmann , Anna Pätschke , Luca Wilke , Thomas Eisenbarth

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

Cache side-channel attacks extract secrets by examining how victim software accesses cache. To date, practical attacks on cryptosystems and media libraries are demonstrated under different scenarios, inferring secret keys and reconstructing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Yuanyuan Yuan , Zhibo Liu , Shuai Wang

Deep neural networks are becoming popular and important assets of many AI companies. However, recent studies indicate that they are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks can be either white-box or black-box. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yun Xiang , Zhuangzhi Chen , Zuohui Chen , Zebin Fang , Haiyang Hao , Jinyin Chen , Yi Liu , Zhefu Wu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

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

Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) requires the detection of the specific time frame Cryptographic Operations (COs) takeplace in the side-channel signal. In laboratory conditions with full control over the Device under Test (DuT), dedicated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Jens Trautmann , Nikolaos Patsiatzis , Andreas Becher , Jürgen Teich , Stefan Wildermann

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