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Power side-channel analysis (SCA) has been of immense interest to most embedded designers to evaluate the physical security of the system. This work presents profiling-based cross-device power SCA attacks using deep learning techniques on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Anupam Golder , Debayan Das , Josef Danial , Santosh Ghosh , Shreyas Sen , Arijit Raychowdhury

Attestation is a strong tool to verify the integrity of an untrusted system. However, in recent years, different attacks have appeared that are able to mislead the attestation process with treacherous practices as memory copy, proxy, and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Ignacio M. Delgado-Lozano , Macarena C. Martínez-Rodríguez , Alexandros Bakas , Billy Bob Brumley , Antonis Michalas

Performing a comprehensive side-channel analysis evaluation of small embedded devices is a process known for its variability and complexity. In real-world experimental setups, the results are largely influenced by a huge amount of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Unai Rioja , Servio Paguada , Lejla Batina , Igor Armendariz

The power consumption of a microprocessor is a huge channel for information leakage. While the most popular exploitation of this channel is to recover cryptographic keys from embedded devices, other applications such as mobile app…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Muhammad Arsath K F , Vinod Ganesan , Rahul Bodduna , Chester Rebeiro

Recent work on Side Channel Analysis (SCA) targets old, well-known vulnerabilities, even previously exploited, reported, and patched in high-profile cryptography libraries. Nevertheless, researchers continue to find and exploit the same…

Side-channel attacks that leak sensitive information through a computing device's interaction with its physical environment have proven to be a severe threat to devices' security, particularly when adversaries have unfettered physical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Ileana Buhan , Lejla Batina , Yuval Yarom , Patrick Schaumont

In recent years, various deep learning techniques have been exploited in side channel attacks, with the anticipation of obtaining more appreciable attack results. Most of them concentrate on improving network architectures or putting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Zhimin Luo , Mengce Zheng , Ping Wang , Minhui Jin , Jiajia Zhang , Honggang Hu

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

This paper demonstrates a power analysis-based Side-Channel Analysis (SCA) attack on the SNOW-V encryption algorithm, which is a 5G mobile communication security standard candidate. Implemented on an STM32 microcontroller, power traces…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Deepak , Rahul Balout , Anupam Golder , Suparna Kundu , Angshuman Karmakar , Debayan Das

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

The massive trend toward embedded systems introduces new security threats to prevent. Malicious firmware makes it easier to launch cyberattacks against embedded systems. Systems infected with malicious firmware maintain the appearance of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Md Sadik Awal , Christopher Thompson , Md Tauhidur Rahman

Side-channel attacks are an unpredictable risk factor in cryptography. Therefore, continuous observations of physical leakages are essential to minimise vulnerabilities associated with cryptographic functions. Lightweight cryptography is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Nilupulee A. Gunathilake , Ahmed Al-Dubai , William J. Buchanan , Owen Lo

Scanning electron microscopy combined with electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) and electron channeling provides rich crystallographic contrast, but the mutual influence of channeling-in and channeling-out is often simplified or…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-28 T. Ben Britton , M. Haroon Qaiser , Ruth M. Birch

This paper presents SNOW-SCA, the first power side-channel analysis (SCA) attack of a 5G mobile communication security standard candidate, SNOW-V, running on a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 microcontroller. First, we perform a generic known-key…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Harshit Saurabh , Anupam Golder , Samarth Shivakumar Titti , Suparna Kundu , Chaoyun Li , Angshuman Karmakar , Debayan Das

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

Side-channel analysis (SCA) can obtain information related to the secret key by exploiting leakages produced by the device. Researchers recently found that neural networks (NNs) can execute a powerful profiling SCA, even on targets…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Fiske Schijlen , Lichao Wu , Luca Mariot

Industrial Control Systems are under increased scrutiny. Their security is historically sub-par, and although measures are being taken by the manufacturers to remedy this, the large installed base of legacy systems cannot easily be updated…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Pol Van Aubel , Kostas Papagiannopoulos , Łukasz Chmielewski , Christian Doerr

Capacitive touchscreens in modern smartphones introduce severe side-channel vulnerabilities. However, existing attacks often require restrictive conditions or invasive measurements. This paper presents TESLA, a novel, contactless…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yukun Cheng , Changhai Ou , Shiyu Zhu , Jinyuan Zhang , Zhenfang Qiu , Xingshuo Han , Tianwei Zhang , Yuan Li , Shihui Zheng

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

Side-channel analysis has been proven effective at detecting hardware Trojans in integrated circuits (ICs). However, most detection techniques rely on large external probes and antennas for data collection and require a long measurement…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hanqiu Wang , Max Panoff , Zihao Zhan , Shuo Wang , Christophe Bobda , Domenic Forte