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In real-life implementations of quantum key distribution (QKD), the physical systems with unwanted imperfections would be exploited by an eavesdropper. Based on imperfections in the detectors, detector control attacks have been successfully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-25 Yong-Jun Qian , De-Yong He , Shuang Wang , Wei Chen , Zhen-Qiang Yin , Guang-Can Guo , Zheng-Fu Han

Side-channel analysis (SCA) poses a real-world threat by exploiting unintentional physical signals to extract secret information from secure devices. Evaluation labs also use the same techniques to certify device security. In recent years,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-21 Sengim Karayalçin , Marina Krček , Stjepan Picek

Side-channel attacks (SCAs) pose a serious threat to system security by extracting secret keys through physical leakages such as power consumption, timing variations, and electromagnetic emissions. Among existing countermeasures, artificial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Jiheon Woo , Donggyun Ryu , Daewon Seo , Young-Sik Kim , Namyoon Lee , Yuval Cassuto , Yongjune Kim

We introduce a defense against adversarial attacks on LLMs utilizing self-evaluation. Our method requires no model fine-tuning, instead using pre-trained models to evaluate the inputs and outputs of a generator model, significantly reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Hannah Brown , Leon Lin , Kenji Kawaguchi , Michael Shieh

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

The threats of physical side-channel attacks and their countermeasures have been widely researched. Most physical side-channel attacks rely on the unavoidable influence of computation or storage on current consumption or voltage drop on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Saleh Khalaj Monfared , Tahoura Mosavirik , Shahin Tajik

Recently, reconstruction-based anomaly detection was proposed as an effective technique to detect attacks in dynamic industrial control networks. Unlike classical network anomaly detectors that observe the network traffic,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Alessandro Erba , Riccardo Taormina , Stefano Galelli , Marcello Pogliani , Michele Carminati , Stefano Zanero , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

Implementation attacks like side-channel and fault attacks pose a considerable threat to cryptographic devices that are physically accessible by an attacker. As a consequence, devices like smart cards implement corresponding countermeasures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Vedad Hadzic , Robert Primas , Roderick Bloem

Recent works have shown that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples that find samples close to the original image but can make the model misclassify. Even with access only to the model's output, an attacker can employ…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Quang H. Nguyen , Yingjie Lao , Tung Pham , Kok-Seng Wong , Khoa D. Doan

Recent studies have demonstrated that reinforcement learning (RL) agents are susceptible to adversarial manipulation, similar to vulnerabilities previously demonstrated in the supervised learning setting. While most existing work studies…

CRYSTALS-Kyber has been standardized as the only key-encapsulation mechanism (KEM) scheme by NIST to withstand attacks by large-scale quantum computers. However, the side-channel attacks (SCAs) on its implementation are still needed to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dejun Xu , Kai Wang , Jing Tian

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs), which support services such as driving assistants and medical diagnoses, undergo lengthy and expensive training procedures. Therefore, the training's outcome - the DNN weights - represents a significant…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Lorenzo Casalino , Maria Méndez Real , Jean-Christophe Prévotet , Rubén Salvador

Modern computer processors use microarchitectural optimization mechanisms to improve performance. As a downside, such optimizations are prone to introducing side-channel vulnerabilities. Speculative loading of memory, called prefetching, is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Till Schlüter , Nils Ole Tippenhauer

CPU caches introduce variations into the execution time of programs that can be exploited by adversaries to recover private information about users or cryptographic keys. Establishing the security of countermeasures against this threat…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Goran Doychev , Boris Köpf

In-memory computing architectures provide a much needed solution to energy-efficiency barriers posed by Von-Neumann computing due to the movement of data between the processor and the memory. Functions implemented in such in-memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Sina Sayyah Ensan , Karthikeyan Nagarajan , Mohammad Nasim Imtia Khan , Swaroop Ghosh

Power side-channel attacks, which can deduce secret data via statistical analysis, have become a serious threat. Masking is an effective countermeasure for reducing the statistical dependence between secret data and side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Pengfei Gao , Hongyi Xie , Jun Zhang , Fu Song , Taolue Chen

Black-box query-based attacks constitute significant threats to Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) systems since they can generate adversarial examples without accessing the target model's architecture and parameters. Traditional defense…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Ping Guo , Xiang Li , Zhiyuan Yang , Xi Lin , Qingchuan Zhao , Qingfu Zhang

The vulnerability of machine learning systems to adversarial attacks questions their usage in many applications. In this paper, we propose a randomized diversification as a defense strategy. We introduce a multi-channel architecture in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Olga Taran , Shideh Rezaeifar , Taras Holotyak , Slava Voloshynovskiy

Text watermarking aims to subtly embed statistical signals into text by controlling the Large Language Model (LLM)'s sampling process, enabling watermark detectors to verify that the output was generated by the specified model. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yixin Cheng , Hongcheng Guo , Yangming Li , Leonid Sigal