Side-Channel Attacks

Breaking! Major Vulnerability Discovered in RISC-V – Non-Self-Sufficient = Not Absolutely Secure

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Breaking! Major Vulnerability Discovered in RISC-V - Non-Self-Sufficient = Not Absolutely Secure

The Xi’an University of Technology has discovered a vulnerability in the RISC-V processor.The official announcement from Xi’an University of Technology states that Professor Hu Wei’s team from the School of Cyberspace Security has uncovered a medium-risk vulnerability in the RISC-V SonicBOOM processor design, which has been specifically named by the National Computer Network Emergency Response … Read more

Pre-Silicon Evaluation and Security Enhancement of RISC-V AES Extensions

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Pre-Silicon Evaluation and Security Enhancement of RISC-V AES Extensions

🔸 Paper Information Title:Pre-Silicon Evaluation and Security Enhancement of RISC-V AES Extensions Authors:Zhao Yiqiang, Wei Xin, Li Yao, He Jiajie First Author Affiliation:Tianjin University, School of Microelectronics Abstract: In response to the potential side-channel leakage risks introduced by instruction set architecture (ISA) extensions for cryptographic algorithm acceleration, a pre-silicon side-channel security assessment method is proposed, … Read more

Integrated Circuit Hardware Security

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Integrated Circuit Hardware Security

Source: Yuezhinet This article was published in the November 2018 issue of IEEE Spectrum Chinese Edition “Technology Review”. Authors: Liu Leibo, Yang Bohan, Zhu Min Talking about information security without discussing integrated circuits is like seeking water without a source or wood without roots. To ensure the safety of electronic information systems applied in various … Read more

Decrypting Encryption Algorithms: A Guide

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Decrypting Encryption Algorithms: A Guide

(Legal Education) ⚠️ Decrypting encryption algorithms is illegal unless done in a legally authorized environment for research and educational purposes ⚠️ Understanding Encryption Algorithms – Conduct an in-depth study of the target encryption algorithm’s workings, mathematical foundations, and encryption processes. Collecting Encrypted Data – Obtain a large sample of data encrypted using the specified encryption … Read more

Research on Medium Risk Vulnerability in Self-Designed RISC-V Processor

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Research on Medium Risk Vulnerability in Self-Designed RISC-V Processor

CNCERT National Engineering Research Center Author | Hu Wei, Professor at Northwestern Polytechnical University Zhang Jiaqi, National Engineering Research Center for Cybersecurity Emergency Technology Abstract:Processor security has become a hot research direction in recent years. In 2021, the first national key research and development project in the field of processor hardware security in China—the research … Read more

Analysis of Side-Channel Attack Testing on Talosec Hardware Wallet Part 1

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Analysis of Side-Channel Attack Testing on Talosec Hardware Wallet Part 1

This article is a featured article from the Kanxue Forum. Author ID on Kanxue Forum: LunaYoung Talosec Core Team: Wang An, Yang Xiaoya We conducted a security assessment of an open-source hardware wallet using side-channel analysis. This wallet’s chip is based on the ARM-Cortex-M4 core, which uses the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) for … Read more

Model Design and Analysis Simulation for Side-Channel Attacks

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Model Design and Analysis Simulation for Side-Channel Attacks

âś– In 2024, Huawei continues to sponsor the China Graduate Innovation Competition, providing a total of nine corporate competition topics in the fields of RF, digital, analog, and EDA algorithms for participating teams to choose from. This year’s Huawei competition topic in the digital direction is: Model design and analysis simulation evaluation of side-channel attacks/fault … Read more

Summary of Side-Channel and Fault Injection Attacks

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Summary of Side-Channel and Fault Injection Attacks

This article is contributed by the ChaMd5 Security Team IOT Group. This is a summary of the theoretical knowledge learned recently about side-channel attacks and fault injection. If there are any mistakes or areas for improvement, I hope experts will correct me. First, let’s introduce several common encryption algorithms. Encryption Algorithms RSA Encryption Algorithm RSA … Read more

Fault Injection Attack on FLASH Erasure Process

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Fault Injection Attack on FLASH Erasure Process

Comprehensive Analysis of Chip Debug Interface Protection Mechanisms Author | Liu Zheng Editor | Liu Mengdi 1. Background Introduction Microcontrollers are the backbone of the modern interconnected world, with widespread applications in robotics, medical devices, aerospace, and automotive industries. With the development of the Internet of Things (IoT), microcontrollers have become even more prevalent in … Read more

Exploiting SATA Cables: How a Security Flaw Turns Hard Drive Cables into Antennas for Data Leakage

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Exploiting SATA Cables: How a Security Flaw Turns Hard Drive Cables into Antennas for Data Leakage

The “SATAn” vulnerability turns SATA cables into antennas to defeat air gap security. Mordechai Guri at Ben-Gurion University seems to be in the death zone of air-physically isolated encrypted computers, or at least giving up their secrets. This hacker exploits a computer’s SATA cable as an antenna to leak data, another example of how many … Read more