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Numerous previous works have studied deep learning algorithms applied in the context of side-channel attacks, which demonstrated the ability to perform successful key recoveries. These studies show that modern cryptographic devices are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruizhe Gu , Ping Wang , Mengce Zheng , Honggang Hu , Nenghai Yu

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

The globalization of the Integrated Circuit (IC) supply chain, driven by time-to-market and cost considerations, has made ICs vulnerable to hardware Trojans (HTs). Against this threat, a promising approach is to use Machine Learning…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Behnam Omidi , Khaled N. Khasawneh , Ihsen Alouani

Timing and cache side channels provide powerful attacks against many sensitive operations including cryptographic implementations. Existing defenses cannot protect against all classes of such attacks without incurring prohibitive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-01 Benjamin A. Braun , Suman Jana , Dan Boneh

Cache side channel attacks are a sophisticated and persistent threat that exploit vulnerabilities in modern processors to extract sensitive information. These attacks leverage weaknesses in shared computational resources, particularly the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Tejal Joshi , Aarya Kawalay , Anvi Jamkhande , Amit Joshi

The gamut of todays internet-connected embedded devices has led to increased concerns regarding the security and confidentiality of data. Most internet-connected embedded devices employ mathematically secure cryptographic algorithms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Archisman Ghosh

Attacks based on side-channel analysis (SCA) pose a severe security threat to modern computing platforms, further exacerbated on IoT devices by their pervasiveness and handling of private and critical data. Designing SCA-resistant computing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Davide Zoni , Andrea Galimberti , Davide Galli

Profiled side-channel analysis (SCA) leverages leakage from cryptographic implementations to extract the secret key. When combined with advanced methods in neural networks (NNs), profiled SCA can successfully attack even those crypto-cores…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Rabin Yu Acharya , Fatemeh Ganji , Domenic Forte

Physical side channels emerge from the relation between internal computation or data with observable physical parameters of a chip. Previous works mostly focus on properties related to current consumption such as power consumption. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Md Sadik Awal , Buddhipriya Gayanath , Md Tauhidur Rahman

Outsourcing in semiconductor industry opened up venues for faster and cost-effective chip manufacturing. However, this also introduced untrusted entities with malicious intent, to steal intellectual property (IP), overproduce the circuits,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Nimisha Limaye , Ozgur Sinanoglu

With the advancement of technology in the last few decades, leading to the widespread availability of miniaturized sensors and internet-connected things (IoT), security of electronic devices has become a top priority. Side-channel attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Debayan Das , Shovan Maity , Saad Bin Nasir , Santosh Ghosh , Arijit Raychowdhury , Shreyas Sen

For the last several years, the embedding of hidden information by steganographic techniques in network communications is increasingly used by attackers in order to obscure data infiltration, exfiltration or command and control in IT…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Tom Neubert , Bjarne Peuker , Laura Buxhoidt , Eric Schueler , Claus Vielhauer

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide an environment for running workloads in the cloud without having to trust cloud service providers, by offering additional hardware-assisted security guarantees. However, main memory encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jan Wichelmann , Anna Pätschke , Luca Wilke , Thomas Eisenbarth

Side-channel attacks pose significant challenges to the security of embedded systems, often allowing attackers to circumvent encryption algorithms in minutes compared to the trillions of years required for brute-force attacks. To mitigate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Gabriel Klasson Landin , Truls Jilborg

Side-channel attacks (SCAs), which infer secret information (for example secret keys) by exploiting information that leaks from the implementation (such as power consumption), have been shown to be a non-negligible threat to modern…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Shan Jin , Minghua Xu , Yiwei Cai

We study side-channel attacks for the Shannon cipher system. To pose side channel-attacks to the Shannon cipher system, we regard them as a signal estimation via encoded data from two distributed sensors. This can be formulated as the one…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Yasutada Oohama , Bagus Santoso

Power-based side-channel is a serious security threat to the System on Chip (SoC). The secret information is leaked from the power profile of the system while a cryptographic algorithm is running. The mitigation requires efforts from both…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Pantea Kiaei , Yuan Yao , Patrick Schaumont

Cryptographic research takes software timing side channels seriously. Approaches to mitigate them include constant-time coding and techniques to enforce such practices. However, recent attacks like Meltdown [42], Spectre [37], and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Martin Dunsche , Patrick Bastian , Marcel Maehren , Nurullah Erinola , Robert Merget , Nicolai Bissantz , Holger Dette , Jörg Schwenk

Discovering new vulnerabilities and implementing security and privacy measures are important to protect systems and data against physical attacks. One such vulnerability is impedance, an inherent property of a device that can be exploited…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Md Sadik Awal , Md Tauhidur Rahman

With the recent advancements in machine learning theory, many commercial embedded micro-processors use neural network models for a variety of signal processing applications. However, their associated side-channel security vulnerabilities…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Saurav Maji , Utsav Banerjee , Anantha P. Chandrakasan