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The fourth industrial revolution leads to an increased use of embedded computation and intercommunication in an industrial environment. While reducing cost and effort for set up, operation and maintenance, and increasing the time to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Simon D. Duque Anton , Anna Pia Lohfink , Hans Dieter Schotten

Modern optical mouse sensors, with their advanced precision and high responsiveness, possess an often overlooked vulnerability: they can be exploited for side-channel attacks. This paper introduces Mic-E-Mouse, the first-ever side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mohamad Fakih , Rahul Dharmaji , Youssef Mahmoud , Halima Bouzidi , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

In this paper, we present an acoustic side channel attack which makes use of smartphone microphones recording a robot in operation to exploit acoustic properties of the sound to fingerprint a robot's movements. In this work we consider the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Ryan Shah , Mujeeb Ahmed , Shishir Nagaraja

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

Side-channel attacks on mobile devices have gained increasing attention since their introduction in 2007. While traditional side-channel attacks, such as power analysis attacks and electromagnetic analysis attacks, required physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-08 Raphael Spreitzer , Veelasha Moonsamy , Thomas Korak , Stefan Mangard

To date, there has been no systematic investigation of thermal profiles of keyboards, and thus no efforts have been made to secure them. This serves as our main motivation for constructing a means for password harvesting from keyboard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Tyler Kaczmarek , Ercan Ozturk , Pier Paolo Tricomi , Gene Tsudik

Side Channel Analysis (SCA) presents a clear threat to privacy and security in modern computing systems. The vast majority of communications are secured through cryptographic algorithms. These algorithms are often provably-secure from a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Max Panoff , Honggang Yu , Haoqi Shan , Yier Jin

In contemporary society, voice-controlled devices, such as smartphones and home assistants, have become pervasive due to their advanced capabilities and functionality. The always-on nature of their microphones offers users the convenience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Yuchen Liu , Apu Kapadia , Donald Williamson

Side-channel attacks on microprocessors, like the RISC-V, exhibit security vulnerabilities that lead to several design challenges. Hence, it is imperative to study and analyze these security vulnerabilities comprehensively. In this paper,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Mahya Morid Ahmadi , Faiq Khalid , Muhammad Shafique

With the rapidly growing number of security-sensitive systems that use voice as the primary input, it becomes increasingly important to address these systems' potential vulnerability to replay attacks. Previous efforts to address this…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Yuan Gong , Jian Yang , Christian Poellabauer

Screaming-channel attacks enable Electromagnetic (EM) Side-Channel Attacks (SCAs) at larger distances due to higher EM leakage energies than traditional SCAs, relaxing the requirement of close access to the victim. This attack can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Jeremy Guillaume , Maxime Pelcat , Amor Nafkha , Ruben Salvador

This work explores backdoor attacks for automatic speech recognition systems where we inject inaudible triggers. By doing so, we make the backdoor attack challenging to detect for legitimate users, and thus, potentially more dangerous. We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Stefanos Koffas , Jing Xu , Mauro Conti , Stjepan Picek

In this work, message authentication over noisy channels is studied. The model developed in this paper is the authentication theory counterpart of Wyner's wiretap channel model. Two types of opponent attacks, namely impersonation attacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-02-20 Lifeng Lai , Hesham El Gamal , H. Vincent Poor

The large integration of microphones into devices increases the opportunities for Acoustic Side-Channel Attacks (ASCAs), as these can be used to capture keystrokes' audio signals that might reveal sensitive information. However, the current…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Seyyed Ali Ayati , Jin Hyun Park , Yichen Cai , Marcus Botacin

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

We study the universal coding under side-channel attacks posed and investigated by Oohama and Santoso (2022). They proposed a theoretical security model for Shannon cipher system under side-channel attacks, where the adversary is not only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yasutada Oohama , Bagus Santoso

Numerous previous works have studied deep learning algorithms applied in the context of side-channel attacks, which demonstrated the ability to perform successful key recoveries. These studies show that modern cryptographic devices are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruizhe Gu , Ping Wang , Mengce Zheng , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

Besides cryptographic secrets, side-channel attacks also leak sensitive user input. The most accurate attacks exploit cache timings or interrupt information to monitor keystroke timings and subsequently infer typed words and sentences.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-06-21 Michael Schwarz , Moritz Lipp , Daniel Gruss , Samuel Weiser , Clémentine Maurice , Raphael Spreitzer , Stefan Mangard

With smart devices being an essential part of our everyday lives, unsupervised access to the mobile sensors' data can result in a multitude of side-channel attacks. In this paper, we study potential data leaks from Apple Pencil (2nd…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Habiba Farrukh , Tinghan Yang , Hanwen Xu , Yuxuan Yin , He Wang , Z. Berkay Celik

Side-channel attacks on memory (SCAM) exploit unintended data leaks from memory subsystems to infer sensitive information, posing significant threats to system security. These attacks exploit vulnerabilities in memory access patterns, cache…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-09 MD Mahady Hassan , Shanto Roy , Reza Rahaeimehr