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GPUs are increasingly being used in security applications, especially for accelerating encryption/decryption. While GPUs are an attractive platform in terms of performance, the security of these devices raises a number of concerns. One…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-03 Elmira Karimi , Yunsi Fei , David Kaeli

This paper presents a novel defense strategy against static power side-channel attacks (PSCAs), a critical threat to cryptographic security. Our method is based on (1) carefully tuning high-Vth versus low-Vth cell selection during…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jitendra Bhandari , Mohammed Nabeel , Likhitha Mankali , Ozgur Sinanoglu , Ramesh Karri , Johann Knechtel

In-memory computing architectures provide a much needed solution to energy-efficiency barriers posed by Von-Neumann computing due to the movement of data between the processor and the memory. Functions implemented in such in-memory…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Sina Sayyah Ensan , Karthikeyan Nagarajan , Mohammad Nasim Imtia Khan , Swaroop Ghosh

Power side-channel (PSC) attacks are widely used in embedded microcontrollers, particularly in cryptographic applications, to extract sensitive information. However, expanding the applications of PSC attacks to broader security contexts in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Pouya Narimani , Meng Wang , Ulysse Planta , Ali Abbasi

Information leakage is a significant problem in modern software systems. Information leaks due to side channels are especially hard to detect and analyze. In this paper, we present techniques for automated synthesis of adaptive side-channel…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Seemanta Saha , William Eiers , Ismet Burak Kadron , Lucas Bang , Tevfik Bultan

Over the past decade, side-channels have proven to be significant and practical threats to modern computing systems. Recent attacks have all exploited the underlying shared hardware. While practical, mounting such a complicated attack is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-24 Mehmet Sinan Inci , Thomas Eisenbarth , Berk Sunar

Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) leverages the principles of quantum mechanics to provide theoretically unconditional security for cryptographic key sharing. However, practical implementations remain vulnerable due to non-ideal devices and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Cong Jiang , Xiao-Long Hu , Zong-Wen Yu , Hai Xu , Xiang-Bin Wang

The widespread adoption of encryption in network protocols has significantly improved the overall security of many Internet applications. However, these protocols cannot prevent network side-channel leaks -- leaks of sensitive information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Amir Sabzi , Rut Vora , Swati Goswami , Margo Seltzer , Mathias Lécuyer , Aastha Mehta

To date, there has been no systematic investigation of thermal profiles of keyboards, and thus no efforts have been made to secure them. This serves as our main motivation for constructing a means for password harvesting from keyboard…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Tyler Kaczmarek , Ercan Ozturk , Pier Paolo Tricomi , Gene Tsudik

Last-level cache side-channel attacks have been mostly demonstrated in highly-controlled, quiescent local environments. Hence, it is unclear whether such attacks are feasible in a production cloud environment. In the cloud, side channels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zirui Neil Zhao , Adam Morrison , Christopher W. Fletcher , Josep Torrellas

Security can be seen as an optimisation objective in NoC resource management, and as such poses trade-offs against other objectives such as real-time schedulability. In this paper, we show how to increase NoC resilience against a concrete…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Leandro Soares Indrusiak , James Harbin , Martha Johanna Sepulveda

Quantum key distribution can provide unconditionally secure key exchange for remote users in theory. In practice, however, in most quantum key distribution systems, quantum hackers might steal the secure keys by listening to the side…

In the recent decade, it has been discovered that QKD systems are extremely vulnerable to side-channel attacks. In particular, by exploiting the internal working knowledge of practical detectors, it is possible to bring them to an operating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-02 Charles Ci Wen Lim , Nino Walenta , Matthieu Legre , Nicolas Gisin , Hugo Zbinden

The inherent thermal storage capacity of buildings brings considerable thermal flexibility to the heating/cooling loads, which are promising demand response resources for power systems. It is widely believed that integrating the thermal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-12 Shuai Lu , Zeyin Hou , Wei Gu , Yijun Xu

Cryptographic libraries, an essential part of cybersecurity, are shown to be susceptible to different types of attacks, including side-channel and memory-corruption attacks. In this article, we examine popular cryptographic libraries in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Rodothea Myrsini Tsoupidi , Elena Troubitsyna , Panos Papadimitratos

In the last years, a series of side channels have been discovered on CPUs. These side channels have been used in powerful attacks, e.g., on cryptographic implementations, or as building blocks in transient-execution attacks such as Spectre…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daniel Weber , Ahmad Ibrahim , Hamed Nemati , Michael Schwarz , Christian Rossow

Side-channel attacks allow to extract sensitive information from cryptographic primitives by correlating the partially known computed data and the measured side-channel signal. Starting from the raw side-channel trace, the preprocessing of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Davide Galli , Giuseppe Chiari , Davide Zoni

CRYSTALS-Kyber has been standardized as the only key-encapsulation mechanism (KEM) scheme by NIST to withstand attacks by large-scale quantum computers. However, the side-channel attacks (SCAs) on its implementation are still needed to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Dejun Xu , Kai Wang , Jing Tian

In this paper we introduced countermeasures against side-channel attacks in the shared memory of TrustZone. We proposed zero-contention cache memory or policy between REE and TEE to prevent from TruSpy attacks in TrustZone. And we suggested…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Na-Young Ahn , Dong Hoon Lee

Confidentiality of the data is being endangered as it has been categorized into false categories which might get leaked to an unauthorized party. For this reason, various organizations are mainly implementing data leakage prevention systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Ishu Gupta , Sloni Mittal , Ankit Tiwari , Priya Agarwal , Ashutosh Kumar Singh