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In this paper, we consider that, in practice, attack scenarios involving side-channel analysis combine two successive phases:an analysis phase, targeting the extraction of information about the target and the identification of possible…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Lionel Morel , Damien Couroussé , Thomas Hiscock

This paper introduces a deep learning modular network for side-channel analysis. Our deep learning approach features the capability to exchange part of it (modules) with others networks. We aim to introduce reusable trained modules into…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Servio Paguada , Lejla Batina , Ileana Buhan , Igor Armendariz

The Electrocardiogram (ECG) measures the electrical cardiac activity generated by the heart to detect abnormal heartbeat and heart attack. However, the irregular occurrence of the abnormalities demands continuous monitoring of heartbeats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Jialin Liu , Ning Miao , Chongzhou Fang , Houman Homayoun , Han Wang

Accelerators used for machine learning (ML) inference provide great performance benefits over CPUs. Securing confidential model in inference against off-chip side-channel attacks is critical in harnessing the performance advantage in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Sarbartha Banerjee , Shijia Wei , Prakash Ramrakhyani , Mohit Tiwari

Compression is an emerging source of exploitable side-channel leakage that threatens data security, particularly in web applications where compression is indispensable for performance reasons. Current approaches to mitigating compression…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Brandon Paulsen , Chungha Sung , Peter A. H. Peterson , Chao Wang

Side-channel attacks are a security exploit that take advantage of information leakage. They use measurement and analysis of physical parameters to reverse engineer and extract secrets from a system. Power analysis attacks in particular,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-26 Yun Chen , Ali Hajiabadi , Romain Poussier , Andreas Diavastos , Shivam Bhasin , Trevor E. Carlson

Pre-silicon side-channel leakage assessment is a useful tool to identify hardware vulnerabilities at design time, but it requires many high-resolution power traces and increases the power simulation cost of the design. By downsampling and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Pantea Kiaei , Zhenyuan Liu , Patrick Schaumont

This paper reveals and exploits a critical security vulnerability: the electromagnetic (EM) side channel of capacitive touchscreens leaks sufficient information to recover fine-grained, continuous handwriting trajectories. We present…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yukun Cheng , Shiyu Zhu , Changhai Ou , Xingshuo Han , Yuan Li , Shihui Zheng

We present a kernel-level infrastructure that allows system-wide detection of malicious applications attempting to exploit cache-based side-channel attacks to break the process confinement enforced by standard operating systems. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Stefano Carnà , Serena Ferracci , Francesco Quaglia , Alessandro Pellegrini

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is a versatile technique used to image samples at the nanoscale. Conventional imaging by this technique relies on finding the average intensity of the signal generated on a detector by secondary electrons…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2021-11-04 Akshay Agarwal , John Simonaitis , Vivek K. Goyal , Karl K. Berggren

Side-channel attacks allow extracting secret information from the execution of cryptographic primitives by correlating the partially known computed data and the measured side-channel signal. However, to set up a successful side-channel…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Giuseppe Chiari , Davide Galli , Francesco Lattari , Matteo Matteucci , Davide Zoni

To protect cryptographic implementations from side-channel vulnerabilities, developers must adopt constant-time programming practices. As these can be error-prone, many side-channel detection tools have been proposed. Despite this, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Antoine Geimer , Mathéo Vergnolle , Frédéric Recoules , Lesly-Ann Daniel , Sébastien Bardin , Clémentine Maurice

Side-channel attacks exploit unintended information leakage from system behavior and continue to pose serious privacy risks in modern platforms. Despite extensive prior work, side-channel analysis remains largely manual and fragmented,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhen Xu , Zihao Wang , Yuhua Sun , XiaoFeng Wang

Side Channel Analysis attacks take advantage of the information leaked from the implementations of cryptographic algorithms. In this paper we describe two key revealing methods which are based on machine learning algorithms: K-means and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Marcin Aftowicz , Ievgen Kabin , Dan Klann , Yauhen Varabei , Zoya Dyka , Peter Langendoerfer

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

Side-Channel Analysis used for codebreaking could be used constructively as a probing tool for internal gates in integrated circuits. This paper outlines basic methods and mathematics for that purpose

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-28 Sumanta Chaudhuri , Sylvain Guilley

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), a century-old technique, is today a ubiquitous method of imaging the surface of nanostructures. However, most SEM detectors simply count the number of secondary electrons from a material of interest, and…

The security of computers is at risk because of information leaking through physical outputs such as power, temperature, or electromagnetic (EM) emissions. Attackers can use advanced signal measurement and analysis to recover sensitive data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Raghavendra Pradyumna Pothukuchi , Sweta Yamini Pothukuchi , Petros Voulgaris , Alexander Schwing , Josep Torrellas

Energy-level alignment (ELA) at buried interfaces between electrode and molecular materials sets charge injection barriers, carrier selectivity, and ultimately device efficiency, yet it is challenging to quantify under operating conditions.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Xuan Ji , Wen Chen , Xi Yu

Cryptosystem implementations often disclose information regarding a secret key due to correlations with side channels such as power consumption, timing variations, and electromagnetic emissions. Since power and EM channels can leak distinct…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Yunkai Bai , Rabin Yu Acharya , Domenic Forte