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Over the years, many techniques have been introduced to protect integrated circuits (ICs) from hardware security threats that emerged in the globalized IC manufacturing supply chain, such as overproduction and piracy. However, most of these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Levent Aksoy , Muhammad Sohaib Munir , Sedat Akleylek

The outsourced manufacturing of integrated circuits has increased the risk of intellectual property theft. In response, logic locking techniques have been developed for protecting designs by adding programmable elements to the circuit.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Joseph Sweeney , Deepali Garg , Lawrence Pileggi

Intellectual Property (IP) infringement including piracy and over production have emerged as significant threats in the semiconductor supply chain. Key based obfuscation techniques (i.e., logic locking) are widely applied to secure legacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Sheikh Ariful Islam , Love Kumar Sah , Srinivas Katkoori

Evaluating the effectiveness of software protection is crucial for selecting the most effective methods to safeguard assets within software applications. Obfuscation involves techniques that deliberately modify software to make it more…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Leonardo Regano , Daniele Canavese , Cataldo Basile , Marco Torchiano

In practical quantum key distribution systems, imperfect physical devices open security loopholes that challenge the core promise of this technology. Apart from various side channels, a vulnerability of single-photon detectors to blinding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Lijiong Shen , Christian Kurtsiefer

We present a framework for bridging the gap between sensor attack detection and recovery in cyber-physical systems. The proposed framework models modern-day, complex perception pipelines as bipartite graphs, which combined with anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Axel Andersson , György Dán

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

Integrated circuits (ICs) are the foundation of all computing systems. They comprise high-value hardware intellectual property (IP) that are at risk of piracy, reverse-engineering, and modifications while making their way through the…

Security of embedded computing systems is becoming of paramount concern as these devices become more ubiquitous, contain personal information and are increasingly used for financial transactions. Security attacks targeting embedded systems…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2015-11-09 Roshan G. Ragel , Jude A. Ambrose , Sri Parameswaran

The significant rise of security concerns in conventional centralized learning has promoted federated learning (FL) adoption in building intelligent applications without privacy breaches. In cybersecurity, the sensitive data along with the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Tran Duc Luong , Vuong Minh Tien , Nguyen Huu Quyen , Do Thi Thu Hien , Phan The Duy , Van-Hau Pham

With the rapid evolution of deepfake technologies and the wide dissemination of digital media, personal privacy is facing increasingly serious security threats. Deepfake proactive forensics, which involves embedding imperceptible watermarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Lixin Jia , Haiyang Sun , Zhiqing Guo , Yunfeng Diao , Dan Ma , Gaobo Yang

Industrial control system (ICS) operations use trusted endpoints like human machine interfaces (HMIs) and workstations to relay commands to programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Because most PLCs lack layered defenses, compromise of a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Rishabh Das. Aaron Werth , Tommy Morris

In recent years fingerprinting of various physical and logical devices has been proposed with the goal of uniquely identifying users or devices of mainstream IT systems such as PCs, Laptops and smart phones. On the other hand, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed , Aditya Mathur , Martin Ochoa

On-body devices are an intrinsic part of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) vision to provide human-centric services. These on-body IoT devices are largely embedded devices that lack a sophisticated user interface to facilitate traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Wei Wang , Lin Yang , Qian Zhang , Tao Jiang

Securing cyber-physical systems (CPS) against malicious attacks is of paramount importance because these attacks may cause irreparable damages to physical systems. Recent studies have revealed that control programs running on CPS devices…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Long Cheng , Ke Tian , Danfeng Yao , Lui Sha , Raheem A. Beyah

Backdoor attacks embed hidden associations between triggers and targets in deep neural networks (DNNs), causing them to predict the target when a trigger is present while maintaining normal behavior otherwise. Physical backdoor attacks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Yongjie Xu , Guangke Chen , Fu Song , Yuqi Chen

The IoT consists of a lot of devices such as embedded systems, wireless sensor nodes (WSNs), control systems, etc. It is essential for some of these devices to protect information that they process and transmit. The issue is that an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Dmytro Petryk , Zoya Dyka , Peter Langendoerfer

Future power networks will be characterized by safe and reliable functionality against physical malfunctions and cyber attacks. This paper proposes a unified framework and advanced monitoring procedures to detect and identify network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-16 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

Threats associated with the untrusted fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs) are numerous: piracy, overproduction, reverse engineering, hardware trojans, etc. The use of reconfigurable elements (i.e., look-up tables as in FPGAs) is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Zain Ul Abideen , Tiago Diadami Perez , Samuel Pagliarini

A finite impulse response (FIR) filter is a ubiquitous block in digital signal processing applications. Its characteristics are determined by its coefficients, which are the intellectual property (IP) for its designer. However, in a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Levent Aksoy , Alexander Hepp , Johanna Baehr , Samuel Pagliarini