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Adversarial attacks pose a substantial threat to computer vision system security, but the social media industry constantly faces another form of "adversarial attack" in which the hackers attempt to upload inappropriate images and fool the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Xiangyu Qu , Stanley H. Chan

We present the first acoustic side-channel attack that recovers what users type on the virtual keyboard of their touch-screen smartphone or tablet. When a user taps the screen with a finger, the tap generates a sound wave that propagates on…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Ilia Shumailov , Laurent Simon , Jeff Yan , Ross Anderson

Side channel attacks (SCAs) remain a significant threat to the security of cryptographic systems in modern embedded devices. Even mathematically secure cryptographic algorithms, when implemented in hardware, inadvertently leak information…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Archisman Ghosh , Dong-Hyun Seo , Debayan Das , Santosh Ghosh , Shreyas Sen

In this work, we identify a set of side-channels in our Confidential Federated Compute platform that a hypothetical insider could exploit to circumvent differential privacy (DP) guarantees. We show how DP can mitigate two of the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-24 James Bell-Clark , Albert Cheu , Adria Gascon , Jonathan Katz

Fingerprint authentication has been extensively employed in contemporary identity verification systems owing to its rapidity and cost-effectiveness. Due to its widespread use, fingerprint leakage may cause sensitive information theft,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Man Zhou , Shuao Su , Qian Wang , Qi Li , Yuting Zhou , Xiaojing Ma , Zhengxiong Li

The IP-stride prefetcher has recently been exploited to leak secrets through side-channel attacks. It, however, cannot be simply disabled for security with prefetching speedup as a sacrifice. The state-of-the-art defense tries to retain the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xingzhi Zhang , Buyi Lv , Yimin Lu , Kai Bu

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in sensitive domains including healthcare, legal services, and confidential communications, where privacy is paramount. This paper introduces Whisper Leak, a side-channel attack that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Geoff McDonald , Jonathan Bar Or

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

Increased connectivity has made us all more vulnerable. Cyberspace, besides all its benefits, spawned more devices to hack and more opportunities to commit cybercrime. Criminals have found it lucrative to target both individuals and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Mazaher Kianpour

With smart devices being an essential part of our everyday lives, unsupervised access to the mobile sensors' data can result in a multitude of side-channel attacks. In this paper, we study potential data leaks from Apple Pencil (2nd…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Habiba Farrukh , Tinghan Yang , Hanwen Xu , Yuxuan Yin , He Wang , Z. Berkay Celik

Neural network applications have become popular in both enterprise and personal settings. Network solutions are tuned meticulously for each task, and designs that can robustly resolve queries end up in high demand. As the commercial value…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Henrique Teles Maia , Chang Xiao , Dingzeyu Li , Eitan Grinspun , Changxi Zheng

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been widely used in various application scenarios. Since the production of a commercial GAN requires substantial computational and human resources, the copyright protection of GANs is urgently…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Guanlin Li , Guowen Xu , Han Qiu , Shangwei Guo , Run Wang , Jiwei Li , Tianwei Zhang , Rongxing Lu

Nearly 70% of information security threats originate from inside an organization. Opportunities for insider threats have been increasing at an alarming rate with the latest trends of mobility (portable devices like Laptop, smart phones…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-10-14 Sugata Sanyal , Ajit Shelat , Amit Gupta

The role of the side channels in the continuous-variable quantum key distribution is studied. It is shown how the information leakage through a side channel from the trusted sender station increases the vulnerability of the protocols to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-11 Ivan Derkach , Vladyslav C. Usenko , Radim Filip

Various side-channel attacks (SCAs) on ICs have been successfully demonstrated and also mitigated to some degree. In the context of 3D ICs, however, prior art has mainly focused on efficient implementations of classical SCA countermeasures.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Johann Knechtel , Ozgur Sinanoglu

Recent work has highlighted the risks of intellectual property (IP) piracy of deep learning (DL) models from the side-channel leakage of DL hardware accelerators. In response, to provide side-channel leakage resiliency to DL hardware…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Mohammad Hashemi , Steffi Roy , Domenic Forte , Fatemeh Ganji

The threats of physical side-channel attacks and their countermeasures have been widely researched. Most physical side-channel attacks rely on the unavoidable influence of computation or storage on current consumption or voltage drop on a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Saleh Khalaj Monfared , Tahoura Mosavirik , Shahin Tajik

We study the universal coding under side-channel attacks posed and investigated by Oohama and Santoso (2022). They proposed a theoretical security model for Shannon cipher system under side-channel attacks, where the adversary is not only…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Yasutada Oohama , Bagus Santoso

Semiconductor design companies are integrating proprietary intellectual property (IP) blocks to build custom integrated circuits (IC) and fabricate them in a third-party foundry. Unauthorized IC copies cost these companies billions of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Christian Pilato , Animesh Basak Chowdhury , Donatella Sciuto , Siddharth Garg , Ramesh Karri

Side-channel vulnerabilities pose an increasing threat to cryptographically protected devices. Consequently, it is crucial to observe information leakages through physical parameters such as power consumption and electromagnetic (EM)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Nilupulee A Gunathilake , Owen Lo , William J Buchanan , Ahmed Al-Dubai