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In this paper, we identify that memory performance plays a crucial role in the feasibility and effectiveness for performing denial-of-service attacks on shared cache. Based on this insight, we introduce new cache DoS attacks, which can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Michael Bechtel , Heechul Yun

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

Neural networks are often trained on proprietary datasets, making them attractive attack targets. We present a novel dataset extraction method leveraging an innovative training time backdoor attack, allowing a malicious federated learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Eden Luzon , Guy Amit , Roy Weiss , Torsten Kraub , Alexandra Dmitrienko , Yisroel Mirsky

In the modern CPU architecture, enhancements such as the Line Fill Buffer (LFB) and Super Queue (SQ), which are designed to track pending cache requests, have significantly boosted performance. To exploit this structures, we deliberately…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Han Wang , Ming Tang , Ke Xu , Quancheng Wang

Cause-effect chains, as a widely used modeling method in real-time embedded systems, are extensively applied in various safety-critical domains. End-to-end latency, as a key real-time attribute of cause-effect chains, is crucial in many…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Yixuan Zhu , Yinkang Gao , Bo Zhang , Xiaohang Gong , Binze Jiang , Lei Gong , Wenqi Lou , Teng Wang , Chao Wang , Xi Li , Xuehai Zhou

Today's mobile devices contain densely packaged system-on-chips (SoCs) with multi-core, high-frequency CPUs and complex pipelines. In parallel, sophisticated SoC-assisted security mechanisms have become commonplace for protecting device…

The Least-Recently Used cache replacement policy and its variants are widely deployed in modern processors. This paper shows for the first time in detail that the LRU states of caches can be used to leak information: any access to a cache…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Wenjie Xiong , Jakub Szefer

Caches are an important component of modern computing systems given their significant impact on performance. In particular, caches play a key role in the cloud due to the nature of large-scale, data-intensive processing. One of the key…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Jinhwan Choi , Yu Gu , Jinoh Kim

This paper presents SNOW-SCA, the first power side-channel analysis (SCA) attack of a 5G mobile communication security standard candidate, SNOW-V, running on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller. First, we perform a generic known-key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Harshit Saurabh , Anupam Golder , Samarth Shivakumar Titti , Suparna Kundu , Chaoyun Li , Angshuman Karmakar , Debayan Das

This paper considers the secretive coded caching problem with shared caches in which no user must have access to the files that it did not demand. In a shared cache network, the users are served by a smaller number of helper caches and each…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Elizabath Peter , K. K. Krishnan Namboodiri , B. Sundar Rajan

We unveil the existence of a vulnerability in Wi-Fi, which allows an adversary to remotely launch a Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack that propagates both in time and space. This vulnerability stems from a coupling effect induced by hidden…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Liangxiao Xin , David Starobinski , Guevara Noubir

Many cache designs have been proposed to guard against contention-based side-channel attacks. One well-known type of cache is the randomized remapping cache. Many randomized remapping caches provide fixed or over protection, which leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xiao Liu , Mark Zwolinski , Basel Halak

This paper shows that today's wireless charging interface is vulnerable to power side-channel attacks; a smartphone charging wirelessly leaks private information about its activity to the wireless charger (charging transmitter). We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Alexander S. La Cour , Khurram K. Afridi , G. Edward Suh

Diffusion models are a powerful class of generative models that produce images and other content from user prompts, but they are computationally intensive. To mitigate this cost, recent academic and industry work has adopted approximate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Desen Sun , Shuncheng Jie , Sihang Liu

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed model training across edge devices while preserving data locality. This decentralized approach has emerged as a promising solution for collaborative learning on sensitive user data, effectively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-18 Mohammad Hadi Foroughi , Seyed Hamed Rastegar , Mohammad Sabokrou , Ahmad Khonsari

The run-time electromagnetic (EM) emanation of microprocessors presents a side-channel that leaks the confidentiality of the applications running on them. Many recent works have demonstrated successful attacks leveraging such side-channels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Nuntipat Narkthong , Yukui Luo , Xiaolin Xu

Dynamic searchable symmetric encryption (DSSE) enables a server to efficiently search and update over encrypted files. To minimize the leakage during updates, a security notion named forward and backward privacy is expected for newly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Lei Xu , Leqian Zheng , Chengzhi Xu , Xingliang Yuan , Cong Wang

Over the years, several security vulnerabilities in the 3GPP cellular systems have been demonstrated in the literature. Most studies focus on higher layers of the cellular radio stack, such as the RRC and NAS, which are cryptographically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Norbert Ludant , Marinos Vomvas , Guevara Noubir

This paper presents a practical side-channel attack that identifies the social web service account of a visitor to an attacker's website. Our attack leverages the widely adopted user-blocking mechanism, abusing its inherent property that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-15 Takuya Watanabe , Eitaro Shioji , Mitsuaki Akiyama , Keito Sasaoka , Takeshi Yagi , Tatsuya Mori

Backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to deep learning models by allowing adversaries to implant hidden behaviors that remain dormant on clean inputs but are maliciously triggered at inference. Existing backdoor attack methods typically…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lijie Hu , Junchi Liao , Weimin Lyu , Shaopeng Fu , Tianhao Huang , Shu Yang , Guimin Hu , Di Wang