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Modern x86 processors support an AVX instruction set to boost performance. However, this extension may cause security issues. We discovered that there are vulnerable properties in implementing masked load/store instructions. Based on this,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Hyunwoo Choi , Suryeon Kim , Seungwon Shin

Last-level cache (LLC) partitioning is a technique to provide temporal isolation and low worst-case latency (WCL) bounds when cores access the shared LLC in multicore safety-critical systems. A typical approach to cache partitioning…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Zhuanhao Wu , Hiren Patel

Despite the remarkable progress of diffusion models in image generation, recent studies reveal their vulnerability to backdoor attacks via covert visual or textual triggers. Although evolving defense mechanisms can detect most existing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Jia Wu , Yu Pan , Junjun Yang , Yi Du

The timing characteristics of cache, a high-speed storage between the fast CPU and the slowmemory, may reveal sensitive information of a program, thus allowing an adversary to conduct side-channel attacks. Existing methods for detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-10 Shengjian Guo , Meng Wu , Chao Wang

Side-channel attacks exploit unintended information leakage from system behavior and continue to pose serious privacy risks in modern platforms. Despite extensive prior work, side-channel analysis remains largely manual and fragmented,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhen Xu , Zihao Wang , Yuhua Sun , XiaoFeng Wang

In recent times, I've encountered a principle known as cloud computing, a model that simplifies user access to data and computing power on a demand basis. The main objective of cloud computing is to accommodate users' growing needs by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Peyman Khordadpour , Saeed Ahmadi

A new variant of the DDoS attack, called Economic Denial of Sustainability attack has emerged. Since the cloud service is based on the pay-per-use model, the EDoS attack endeavors to scale up the resource usage over time to the point the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Parminder Singh , Shafiq Ul Rehman , Selvakumar Manickam

Backdoor attacks pose a severe threat to deep neural networks (DNNs) by implanting hidden backdoors that can be activated with predefined triggers to manipulate model behaviors maliciously. Recent studies have extended backdoor attacks to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yu Feng , Dingxin Zhang , Runkai Zhao , Yong Xia , Heng Huang , Weidong Cai

Cache timing attack is a type of side channel attack where the leaking timing information due to the cache behaviour of a crypto system is used by an attacker to break the system. Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) was considered a secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Janaka Alawatugoda , Darshana Jayasinghe , Roshan Ragel

Multi-process concurrency is effective in improving program efficiency and maximizing CPU utilization. The correct execution of concurrency is ensured by the mutual exclusion and synchronization mechanism (MESM) that manages the shared…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Chaoqun Shen , Jiliang Zhang , Gang Qu

End-to-end encryption (E2EE) by messaging platforms enable people to securely and privately communicate with one another. Its widespread adoption however raised concerns that illegal content might now be shared undetected. Following the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-03 Shubham Jain , Ana-Maria Cretu , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

In the quest for efficiency and performance, edge-computing providers eliminate isolation boundaries between tenants, such as strict process isolation, and instead let them compute in a more lightweight multi-threaded single-process design.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Martin Schwarzl , Pietro Borrello , Andreas Kogler , Kenton Varda , Thomas Schuster , Daniel Gruss , Michael Schwarz

Due to the constant increase and versatility of IoT devices that should keep sensitive information private, Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) attacks on embedded devices are gaining visibility in the industrial field. The integration and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Unai Rioja , Lejla Batina , Jose Luis Flores , Igor Armendariz

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

Deep Neural Network (DNN) models are often deployed in resource-sharing clouds as Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) to provide inference services.To steal model architectures that are of valuable intellectual properties, a class of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Yansong Gao , Huming Qiu , Zhi Zhang , Binghui Wang , Hua Ma , Alsharif Abuadbba , Minhui Xue , Anmin Fu , Surya Nepal

In recent years, the adoption of cloud services has been expanding at an unprecedented rate. As more and more organizations migrate or deploy their businesses to the cloud, a multitude of related cybersecurity incidents such as data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Fei Zuo , Junghwan Rhee , Yung Ryn Choe , Chenglong Fu , Xianshan Qu

As machine learning models become increasingly deployed across the edge of internet of things environments, a partitioned deep learning paradigm in which models are split across multiple computational nodes introduces a new dimension of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Giulio Rossolini , Fabio Brau , Alessandro Biondi , Battista Biggio , Giorgio Buttazzo

This work presents a Cross-device Deep-Learning based Electromagnetic (EM-X-DL) side-channel analysis (SCA), achieving >90% single-trace attack accuracy on AES-128, even in the presence of significantly lower signal-to-noise ratio (SNR),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Josef Danial , Debayan Das , Anupam Golder , Santosh Ghosh , Arijit Raychowdhury , Shreyas Sen

This paper demonstrates a power analysis-based Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) attack on the SNOW-V encryption algorithm, which is a 5G mobile communication security standard candidate. Implemented on an STM32 microcontroller, power traces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Deepak , Rahul Balout , Anupam Golder , Suparna Kundu , Angshuman Karmakar , Debayan Das

Shared caches are vulnerable to side channel attacks through contention in cache sets. Besides being a simple source of information leak, these side channels form useful gadgets for more sophisticated attacks that compromise the security of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Divya Ojha , Sandhya Dwarkadas