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Neural networks are increasingly used for intrusion detection on industrial control systems (ICS). With neural networks being vulnerable to adversarial examples, attackers who wish to cause damage to an ICS can attempt to hide their attacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Giulio Zizzo , Chris Hankin , Sergio Maffeis , Kevin Jones

Deep neural network-based classifiers have been shown to be vulnerable to imperceptible perturbations to their input, such as $\ell_p$-bounded norm adversarial attacks. This has motivated the development of many defense methods, which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Darshan Thaker , Paris Giampouras , René Vidal

According to the World Economic Forum, cyber attacks are considered as one of the most important sources of risk to companies and institutions worldwide. Attacks can target the network, software, and/or hardware. During the past years, much…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Tara Ghasempouri , Jaan Raik , Cezar Reinbrecht , Said Hamdioui , Mottaqiallah Taouil

Detector blinding attacks have been proposed in the last few years, and they could potentially threaten the security of QKD systems. Even though no complete QKD system has been hacked yet, it is nevertheless important to consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Gaëtan Gras , Davide Rusca , Hugo Zbinden , Félix Bussières

Microarchitectural side channel attacks have been very prominent in security research over the last few years. Caches have been an outstanding covert channel, as they provide high resolution and generic cross-core leakage even with simple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Samira Briongos , Ida Bruhns , Pedro Malagón , Thomas Eisenbarth , José M. Moya

Logic Encryption is one of the most popular hardware security techniques which can prevent IP piracy and illegal IC overproduction. It introduces obfuscation by inserting some extra hardware into a design to hide its functionality from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-01-17 Rajit Karmakar , Santanu Chatopadhyay , Rohit Kapur

Side-channel attacks are a security exploit that take advantage of information leakage. They use measurement and analysis of physical parameters to reverse engineer and extract secrets from a system. Power analysis attacks in particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yun Chen , Ali Hajiabadi , Romain Poussier , Andreas Diavastos , Shivam Bhasin , Trevor E. Carlson

Quantum circuits are the fundamental representation of quantum algorithms and constitute valuable intellectual property (IP). Multiple quantum circuit obfuscation (QCO) techniques have been proposed in prior research to protect quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Hongyu Zhang , Yuntao Liu

Considering the increasing frequency of cyberattacks affecting multiple hospitals simultaneously, improving resilience at a network level is essential. Various countermeasures exist to improve resilience against cyberattacks, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Stephan Helfrich , Emilia Grass

Neural networks have been shown to be vulnerable against fault injection attacks. These attacks change the physical behavior of the device during the computation, resulting in a change of value that is currently being computed. They can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Jakub Breier , Dirmanto Jap , Xiaolu Hou , Shivam Bhasin , Yang Liu

Reverse engineering of FPGA designs from bitstreams to RTL models aids in understanding the high level functionality of the design and for validating and reconstructing legacy designs. Fast carry-chains are commonly used in synthesis of…

Hardware Reverse Engineering (HRE) is a technique for analyzing integrated circuits. Experts employ HRE for security-critical tasks, like detecting Trojans or intellectual property violations, relying not only on their experience and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Steffen Becker , René Walendy , Markus Weber , Carina Wiesen , Nikol Rummel , Christof Paar

As real-world images come in varying sizes, the machine learning model is part of a larger system that includes an upstream image scaling algorithm. In this paper, we investigate the interplay between vulnerabilities of the image scaling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Yue Gao , Ilia Shumailov , Kassem Fawaz

Honeypots, i.e. networked computer systems specially designed and crafted to mimic the normal operations of other systems while capturing and storing information about the interactions with the world outside, are a crucial technology into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Michele Bombardieri , Salvatore Castanò , Fabrizio Curcio , Angelo Furfaro , Helen D. Karatza

With the widespread use of biometric recognition, several issues related to the privacy and security provided by this technology have been recently raised and analysed. As a result, the early common belief among the biometrics community of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-08 Marta Gomez-Barrero , Javier Galbally

The implementations of most hardened cryptographic libraries use defensive programming techniques for side-channel resistance. These techniques are usually specified as guidelines to developers on specific code patterns to use or avoid.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Moritz Schneider , Daniele Lain , Ivan Puddu , Nicolas Dutly , Srdjan Capkun

Hardware Trojans have drawn the attention of academia, industry and government agencies. Effective detection mechanisms and countermeasures against such malicious designs can only be developed when there is a deep understanding of how…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Samaneh Ghandali , Thorben Moos , Amir Moradi , Christof Paar

We propose a new defense mechanism against adversarial attacks inspired by an optical co-processor, providing robustness without compromising natural accuracy in both white-box and black-box settings. This hardware co-processor performs a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Alessandro Cappelli , Ruben Ohana , Julien Launay , Laurent Meunier , Iacopo Poli , Florent Krzakala

The proliferation and application of machine learning based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have allowed for more flexibility and efficiency in the automated detection of cyber attacks in Industrial Control Systems (ICS). However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Eirini Anthi , Lowri Williams , Matilda Rhode , Pete Burnap , Adam Wedgbury

Security still remains an afterthought in modern Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools, which solely focus on enhancing performance and reducing the chip size. Typically, the security analysis is conducted by hand, leading to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Lennart M. Reimann , Sarp Erdönmez , Dominik Sisejkovic , Rainer Leupers