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Most electronic devices utilize mechanical keyboards to receive inputs, including sensitive information such as authentication credentials, personal and private data, emails, plans, etc. However, these systems are susceptible to acoustic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Alireza Taheritajar , Zahra Mahmoudpour Harris , Reza Rahaeimehr

Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks (ASCAs) extract sensitive information by using audio emitted from a computing devices and their peripherals. Attacks targeting keyboards are popular and have been explored in the literature. However, similar…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Mauro Conti , Marin Duroyon , Gabriele Orazi , Gene Tsudik

With recent developments in deep learning, the ubiquity of micro-phones and the rise in online services via personal devices, acoustic side channel attacks present a greater threat to keyboards than ever. This paper presents a practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Joshua Harrison , Ehsan Toreini , Maryam Mehrnezhad

Cloud services have become an essential infrastructure for enterprises and individuals. Access to these cloud services is typically governed by Identity and Access Management systems, where user authentication often relies on passwords.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Darren Fürst , Andreas Aßmuth

The increasing prevalence of microphones in everyday devices and the growing reliance on online services have amplified the risk of acoustic side-channel attacks (ASCAs) targeting keyboards. This study explores deep learning techniques,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jin Hyun Park , Seyyed Ali Ayati , Yichen Cai

We present the first acoustic side-channel attack that recovers what users type on the virtual keyboard of their touch-screen smartphone or tablet. When a user taps the screen with a finger, the tap generates a sound wave that propagates on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Ilia Shumailov , Laurent Simon , Jeff Yan , Ross Anderson

Modern processors dynamically control their operating frequency to optimize resource utilization, maximize energy savings, and conform to system-defined constraints. If, during the execution of a software workload, the running average of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Chen Liu , Abhishek Chakraborty , Nikhil Chawla , Neer Roggel

The 3D printing market has experienced significant growth in recent years, with an estimated revenue of 15 billion USD for 2025. Cyber-attacks targeting the 3D printing process whether through the machine itself, the supply chain, or the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Seyed Ali Ghazi Asgar , Narasimha Reddy

Side-channel attacks try to extract secret information from a system by analyzing different side-channel signatures, such as power consumption, electromagnetic emanation, thermal dissipation, acoustics, time, etc. Power-based side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Sahan Sanjaya , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

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

We report the first active acoustic side-channel attack. Speakers are used to emit human inaudible acoustic signals and the echo is recorded via microphones, turning the acoustic system of a smart phone into a sonar system. The echo signal…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-31 Peng Cheng , Ibrahim Ethem Bagci , Utz Roedig , Jeff Yan

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

Short-range audio channels have a few distinguishing characteristics: ease of use, low deployment costs, and easy to tune frequencies, to cite a few. Moreover, thanks to their seamless adaptability to the security context, many techniques…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Maurantonio Caprolu , Savio Sciancalepore , Roberto Di Pietro

Acoustic emanations of computer keyboards represent a serious privacy issue. As demonstrated in prior work, physical properties of keystroke sounds might reveal what a user is typing. However, previous attacks assumed relatively strong…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-14 Alberto Compagno , Mauro Conti , Daniele Lain , Gene Tsudik

Quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols are proven secure based on fundamental physical laws, however, the proofs consider a well-defined setting and encoding of the sent quantum signals only. Side channels, where the encoded quantum state…

The side-channel attack is an attack method based on the information gained about implementations of computer systems, rather than weaknesses in algorithms. Information about system characteristics such as power consumption, electromagnetic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Guanlin Li , Chang Liu , Han Yu , Yanhong Fan , Libang Zhang , Zongyue Wang , Meiqin Wang

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

Wireless devices resorting to event-triggered communications have been proved to suffer critical privacy issues, due to the intrinsic leakage associated with radio-frequency (RF) emissions. In this paper, we move the attack frontier forward…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-22 Gabriele Oligeri , Savio Sciancalepore , Simone Raponi , Roberto Di Pietro

Sound at frequencies above (ultrasonic) or below (infrasonic) the range of human hearing can, in some settings, cause adverse physiological and psychological effects to individuals. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Matt Wixey , Shane Johnson , Emiliano De Cristofaro

Power side-channel attacks are a very effective cryptanalysis technique that can infer secret keys of security ICs by monitoring the power consumption. Since the emergence of practical attacks in the late 90s, they have been a major threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Lu Zhang , Luis Vega , Michael Taylor
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