tag: side channel attacks

Temperature: A Growing Concern For Chip Security Experts
By Adam Kovac - 13 Jun, 2024 - Comments: 0

While everyone in the semiconductor industry wants to have the hottest new product, having that type of temperature manifest in a literal sense poses a threat not just to product stability and performance but to the security of the chips themselves. Temperature has become an object of fascination to security researchers due to the vagaries of how the physical properties of heat affect perfor... » read more

Secure Your SoC From Side Channel Attacks With Adaptable Security
By Jayson Bethurem - 06 Jun, 2024 - Comments: 0

Many SoC and ASIC manufacturers rely heavily on cryptographic solutions to safeguard sensitive IP and data transmission within their devices. In a dynamic landscape where threats from attackers continue to evolve, encryption algorithms play a crucial role in fortifying defenses. Hackers today are leveraging advanced physical tactics that extend beyond traditional data interception, posing signi... » read more

Research Bits: April 30
By Jesse Allen - 30 Apr, 2024 - Comments: 0

Sound waves in optical neural networks Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light and Massachusetts Institute of Technology found a way to build reconfigurable recurrent operators based on sound waves for photonic machine learning. They used light to create temporary acoustic waves in an optical fiber, which manipulate subsequent computational steps of an optical rec... » read more

Suppressing Power Side-Channel Attacks: A HW/SW Design For Resource-Constrained IoT Devices
By Technical Paper Link - 12 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Hardware/Software Cooperative Design Against Power Side-Channel Attacks on IoT Devices” was published by researchers at Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Electro-Communications. Abstract: "With the growth of Internet of Things (IoT) era, the protection of secret information on IoT devices is becoming increasingly important. For IoT devices, atta... » read more

An Analytical EM Model For IC Shielding Against HW Attacks
By Technical Paper Link - 05 Mar, 2024 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Refined Analytical EM Model of IC-Internal Shielding for Hardware-Security and Intra-Device Simulative Framework” was published by researchers at Bar-Ilan University and Rafael Defense Systems. Abstract: "Over the past two decades, the prominence of physical attacks on electronic devices, designed to extract confidential information, has surged. These attacks exp... » read more

Side-Channel Attack Protection For Quantum Safe Cryptography
By Bart Stevens - 04 Jan, 2024 - Comments: 0

A recent Reuters Special Report discussed the race between the US and China to protect digital assets and communications from the potential threat posed by quantum computers. Cryptographically relevant quantum computers, those that are powerful enough to crack existing public key-based encryption methods, could compromise military, economic, and personal information across the globe. While the ... » read more

SystemC-based Power Side-Channel Attacks Against AI Accelerators (Univ. of Lubeck)
By Technical Paper Link - 21 Dec, 2023 - Comments: 0

A new technical paper titled "SystemC Model of Power Side-Channel Attacks Against AI Accelerators: Superstition or not?" was published by researchers at Germany's University of Lubeck. Abstract "As training artificial intelligence (AI) models is a lengthy and hence costly process, leakage of such a model's internal parameters is highly undesirable. In the case of AI accelerators, side-chann... » read more

More Efficient Side-Channel Analysis By Applying Two Deep Feature Loss Functions
By Technical Paper Link - 12 Dec, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “Beyond the Last Layer: Deep Feature Loss Functions in Side-channel Analysis” was published by researchers at Nanyang Technological University, Radboud University, and Delft University of Technology. Abstract: "This paper provides a novel perspective on improving the efficiency of side-channel analysis by applying two deep feature loss functions: Soft Nearest Neig... » read more

Chip Industry Week In Review
By The SE Staff - 01 Dec, 2023 - Comments: 0

By Susan Rambo, Gregory Haley, and Liz Allan Amkor plans to invest about $2 billion in a new advanced packaging and test facility in Peoria, Arizona. When finished, it will employ about 2,000 people and will be the largest outsourced advanced packaging facility in the U.S. The first phase of the construction is expected to be completed and operational within two to three years. Synopsys p... » read more

A Formal Verification Method To Detect Timing Side Channels In MCU SoCs
By Technical Paper Link - 11 Oct, 2023 - Comments: 0

A technical paper titled “A New Security Threat in MCUs – SoC-wide timing side channels and how to find them” was published by researchers at University of Kaiserslautern-Landau and Stanford University. Abstract: "Microarchitectural timing side channels have been thoroughly investigated as a security threat in hardware designs featuring shared buffers (e.g., caches) and/or parallelism b... » read more

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