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TitleAuthorsOriginal Publication
Profiling Side-Channel Attacks on Dilithium: A Small Bit-Fiddling Leak Breaks It AllVincent Quentin Ulitzsch; Soundes Marzougui; Mehdi Tibouchi; Jean-Pierre Seifert29th International Conference on Selected Areas in Cryptography (SAC 2022)
An Extensive Study of Flexible Design Methods for the Number Theoretic TransformAhmet Can Mert; Emre Karabulut; Erdinc Ozturk; Erkay Savas; Aydin AysuIEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022
Remove Some Noise: On Pre-processing of Side-channel Measurements with AutoencodersLichao Wu; Stjepan PicekIACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (TCHES) 2020
Cascade: CPU Fuzzing via Intricate Program GenerationFlavien Solt; Katharina Ceesay-Seitz; Kaveh Razavi33rd USENIX Security Symposium
Leaky Buddies: Cross-Component Covert Channels on Integrated CPU-GPU SystemsSankha Baran Dutta; Hoda Naghibijouybari; Nael Abu-Ghazaleh; Andres Marquez; Kevin BarkerACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2021
EarArray: Defending against DolphinAttack via Acoustic AttenuationGuoming Zhang; Xiaoyu Ji; Xinfeng Li; Gang Qu; Wenyuan XuNetwork and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2021
CellIFT: Leveraging Cells for Scalable and Precise Dynamic Information Flow Tracking in RTLFlavien Solt; Ben Gras; Kaveh Razavi31st USENIX Security Symposium
MorFuzz: Fuzzing Processor via Runtime Instruction Morphing enhanced Synchronizable Co-simulationJinyan Xu; Yiyuan Liu; Sirui He; Haoran Lin; Yajin Zhou; Cong Wang32nd USENIX Security Symposium
GhostCache: Timer- and Counter-Free Cache Attacks Exploiting Weak Coherence on RISC-V and ARM ChipsYu Jin; Minghong Sun; Dongsheng Wang; Pengfei Qiu; Yinqian Zhang; Shuwen DengACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) 2025
MetaLeak: Uncovering Side Channels in Secure Processor Architectures Exploiting MetadataMd Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy; Hao Zheng; Fan YaoACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA) 2024
Ceviche: Capability-Enhanced Secure Virtualization of CachesArnabjyoti Kalita; Yilong Yang; Alenkruth Krishnan Murali; Ashish VenkatIEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P) 2025