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Semantic communication has emerged as a promising paradigm for enhancing communication efficiency in sixth-generation (6G) networks. However, the broadcast nature of wireless channels makes SemCom systems vulnerable to eavesdropping, which…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shunpu Tang , Yuhao Chen , Qianqian Yang , Ruichen Zhang , Dusit Niyato , Zhiguo Shi

With the wide/rapid spread of distributed systems for information processing, such as cloud computing and social networking, not only transmission but also processing is done on the internet. Therefore, a lot of studies on secure, efficient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Hitoshi Kiya

Any secure network is only as secure as its weakest component. With overt channels tightly secured and attackers have started focusing on optical, audible, magnetic, and thermal covert channels to access sensitive systems. In this paper, we…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Weeam Alshangiti , Rafid Saad

We introduce screen gleaning, a TEMPEST attack in which the screen of a mobile device is read without a visual line of sight, revealing sensitive information displayed on the phone screen. The screen gleaning attack uses an antenna and a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Zhuoran Liu , Niels Samwel , Léo Weissbart , Zhengyu Zhao , Dirk Lauret , Lejla Batina , Martha Larson

Unintended electromagnetic emissions, called EM emanations, can be exploited to recover sensitive information, posing security risks. Metal shielding, used by defense organizations to prevent data leakage, is costly and impractical for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Md Faizul Bari , Meghna Roy Chowdhury , Shreyas Sen

A previously unknown form of compromising emanations has been discovered. LED status indicators on data communication equipment, under certain conditions, are shown to carry a modulated optical signal that is significantly correlated with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Joe Loughry , David A. Umphress

Covert channels are communication channels used by attackers to transmit information from a compromised system when the access control policy of the system does not allow doing so. Previous work has shown that CPU frequency scaling can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Manuel Kalmbach , Mathias Gottschlag , Tim Schmidt , Frank Bellosa

This paper introduces Elliptic Curve Modulation (ECM), a novel modulation scheme that can be leveraged to effectively shuffle transmitted data while maintaining symbol error probability (SEP) performance equivalent to unencrypted systems.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-21 Thrassos K. Oikonomou , George K. Karagiannidis

Covert communication offers a method to transmit messages in such a way that it is not possible to detect that the communication is happening at all. In this work, we report an experimental demonstration of covert communication that is…

Computer network is unpredictable due to information warfare and is prone to various attacks. Such attacks on network compromise the most important attribute, the privacy. Most of such attacks are devised using special communication channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-01-04 Anjan K , Jibi Abraham , Mamatha Jadhav

This paper investigates secure communications in a near-field multi-functional integrated sensing, communication, and powering (ISCAP) system with an extremely large-scale antenna arrays (ELAA) equipped at the base station (BS). In this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-24 Zixiang Ren , Siyao Zhang , Xinmin Li , Ling Qiu , Jie Xu , Derrick Wing Kwan Ng

Physical isolation, so called air-gapping, is an effective method for protecting security-critical computers and networks. While it might be possible to introduce malicious code through the supply chain, insider attacks, or social…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Niclas Kühnapfel , Stefan Preußler , Maximilian Noppel , Thomas Schneider , Konrad Rieck , Christian Wressnegger

Covert channels is a vital setup in the analysing the strength of security in a network.Covert Channel is illegitimate channelling over the secured channel and establishes a malicious conversation.The trapdoor set in such channels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-17 Anjan K , Srinath N K , Jibi Abraham

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

Covert channel attacks have been continuously studied as severe threats to modern computing systems. Software-based covert channels are a typically hard-to-detect branch of these attacks, since they leverage virtual resources to establish…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Jeferson Gonzalez-Gomez , Jose Alejandro Ibarra-Campos , Jesus Yamir Sandoval-Morales , Lars Bauer , Jörg Henkel

Covert channels can be utilized to secretly deliver information from high privileged processes to low privileged processes in the context of a high-assurance computing system. In this case study, we investigate the possibility of covert…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Wolfgang Schmidt , Michael Hanspach , Jörg Keller

Using the keyboard LEDs to send data optically was proposed in 2002 by Loughry and Umphress [1] (Appendix A). In this paper we extensively explore this threat in the context of a modern cyber-attack with current hardware and optical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-15 Mordechai Guri , Boris Zadov , Dima Bykhovsky , Yuval Elovici

Although organizations are continuously making concerted efforts to harden their systems against network attacks by air-gapping critical systems, attackers continuously adapt and uncover covert channels to exfiltrate data from air-gapped…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Matthew Chan , Nathaniel Snyder , Marcus Lucas , Luis Garcia , Oleg Sokolsky , James Weimer , Insup Lee , Paulo Tabuada , Saman Zonouz , Mani Srivastava

Covert communication aims to shield the very existence of wireless transmissions in order to guarantee a strong security in wireless networks. In this work, for the first time we examine the possibility and achievable performance of covert…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jinsong Hu , Shihao Yan , Xiangyun Zhou , Feng Shu , Jiangzhou Wang

Covert quantum communication (CQC) seeks to hide not only message content but also the existence of communication. Existing CQC models usually assume deterministic or worst-case channel conditions, which are difficult to justify in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Abbas Arghavani , Shahid Raza , Maryam Amiri , Alessandro Papadopoulos