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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

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

Side-channel attacks have empowered bypassing of cryptographic components in circuits. Power side-channel (PSC) attacks have received particular traction, owing to their non-invasiveness and proven effectiveness. Aside from prior art…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Johann Knechtel , Satwik Patnaik , Mohammed Nabeel , Mohammed Ashraf , Yogesh S. Chauhan , Jörg Henkel , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Hussam Amrouch

Power analysis is a branch of side channel attacks where power consumption data is used as the side channel to attack the system. First using a device like an oscilloscope power traces are collected when the cryptographic device is doing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Hasindu Gamaarachchi , Harsha Ganegoda

Advancements in battery technology have accelerated the adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) due to their environmental benefits. However, their growing sophistication introduces security and privacy challenges. Often seen as mere…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Francesco Marchiori , Mauro Conti

With the recent advancements in machine learning theory, many commercial embedded micro-processors use neural network models for a variety of signal processing applications. However, their associated side-channel security vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Saurav Maji , Utsav Banerjee , Anantha P. Chandrakasan

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

Context switching is utilized by operating systems to change the execution context between application programs. It involves saving and restoring the states of multiple registers and performing a pipeline flush to remove any pre-fetched…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Sahan Sanjaya , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

The drive to create thinner, lighter, and more energy efficient devices has resulted in modern SoCs being forced to balance a delicate tradeoff between power consumption, heat dissipation, and execution speed (i.e., frequency). While…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Hritvik Taneja , Jason Kim , Jie Jeff Xu , Stephan van Schaik , Daniel Genkin , Yuval Yarom

In this paper, we investigate the impact of side information (SI) on the performance of physical layer security (PLS) under correlated fading channels. By considering non-causally known SI at the transmitter and exploiting the copula…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Farshad Rostami Ghadi , F. Javier Lopez-Martinez , Wei-Ping Zhu , Jean-Marie Gorce

Discovering new vulnerabilities and implementing security and privacy measures are important to protect systems and data against physical attacks. One such vulnerability is impedance, an inherent property of a device that can be exploited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Md Sadik Awal , Md Tauhidur Rahman

The power consumption of a microprocessor is a huge channel for information leakage. While the most popular exploitation of this channel is to recover cryptographic keys from embedded devices, other applications such as mobile app…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Muhammad Arsath K F , Vinod Ganesan , Rahul Bodduna , Chester Rebeiro

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

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

Cybersecurity continues to be a difficult issue for society especially as the number of networked systems grows. Techniques to protect these systems range from rules-based to artificial intelligence-based intrusion detection systems and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Paul Maxwell , David Niblick , Daniel C. Ruiz

Side-channel attacks are a security exploit that take advantage of information leakage. They use measurement and analysis of physical parameters to reverse engineer and extract secrets from a system. Power analysis attacks in particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yun Chen , Ali Hajiabadi , Romain Poussier , Andreas Diavastos , Shivam Bhasin , Trevor E. Carlson

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

Side-channel attacks consist of retrieving internal data from a victim system by analyzing its leakage, which usually requires proximity to the victim in the range of a few millimetres. Screaming channels are EM side channels transmitted at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jeremy Guillaume , Maxime Pelcat , Amor Nafkha , Rubén Salvador

Security in modern RISC-V processors demands more than functional correctness: It requires resilience to side-channel attacks. This paper evaluates the vulnerability of the side channel of the CVA6 RISC-V core by analyzing software-based…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Behnam Farnaghinejad , Antonio Porsia , Annachiara Ruospo , Alessandro Savino , Stefano Di Carlo , Ernesto Sanchez

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