Oleksii Neretin, Vyacheslav Kharchenko

Information Technology for Assessing and Ensuring Cybersecurity of Large Language Models

Cyber

The rapid evolution of large language models (LLMs) and their incredible ability to work with natural language is generating interest withi...

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Aurel Pichollet-Mugnier, André Schrottenloher

Quantum Truncated Differential Attacks Using Convolutions

Cyber

This paper focuses on quantum key-recovery attacks on block ciphers. Previous works on quantum differential and truncated differential atta...

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Xiaoen Lin, Zhengrong Lu, Yantian Shen, Chongxu Ren, Hongbo Yu, Enming Dong, Wenhao Wu

Practical Preimage Attack on 5-Round Keccak[r=640, c=160]

Cyber

Internal differential cryptanalysis has recently yielded a series of new results in the preimage cryptanalysis of round-reduced Keccak. Whi...

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This paper presents a significant advancement in the cryptanalysis of round-reduced Keccak, specifically focusing on preimage attacks. Building upon t...

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Shuo Peng, Akram Khalesi, Zahra Ahmadian, Hosein Hadipour, Jiahui He, Kai Hu, Zhongfeng Niu, Shahram Rasoolzadeh, Meiqin Wang

Cube and Integral Attacks on ChiLow-32

Cyber

The protection of executable code in embedded systems requires efficient mechanisms that ensure confidentiality and integrity. Belkheyar et...

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Yufei Yuan, Wenling Wu, Lei Zhang, Ruichen Wu

Fourier Analysis of Neural Distinguishers

Cyber

Recent studies have consistently demonstrated the significant potential of deep learning for distinguishing attacks in cryptanalysis. A con...

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This paper addresses a crucial and timely challenge in the application of deep learning to cryptanalysis: the lack of theoretical understanding and in...

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Hemin Rahimi, Amir Moradi

TSM+ and OTSM

Cyber

Among the countermeasures against side-channel analysis attacks, masking offers formal security guarantees and composability, yet remains c...

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This work addresses critical limitations in the practical application of masking countermeasures against side-channel analysis attacks, particularly i...

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Ruben Niederhagen, Hoang Nguyen Hien Pham

Improving ML-KEM and ML-DSA on OpenTitan

Cyber

This work improves upon the instruction set extension proposed in the paper “Towards ML-KEM and ML-DSA on OpenTitan”, in short OTBNTW, for...

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This paper presents a compelling advancement in the hardware acceleration of post-quantum cryptographic schemes, ML-KEM and ML-DSA, on the OpenTitan p...

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Jinyi Qiu, Aydin Aysu

NTT-PEEL: Bit Shift Side-Channel in FALCON’s Number Theoretic Transform

Cyber

This work introduces a new single-trace side-channel attack against FALCON, a lattice-based post-quantum digital signature scheme recently...

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Tanvir Hossain, Matthew Showers, Mahmudul Hasan, Tamzidul Hoque

On the Security of Lightweight Homomorphic Obfuscation for Protecting Against Hardware Trojans

Cyber

Hardware Trojan (HT) attacks pose a critical threat to modern microelectronics by enabling the leakage of sensitive information, such as cr...

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The paper addresses a critical and growing concern in microelectronics security: Hardware Trojan (HT) attacks, particularly their threat to Commercial...

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Zhuo Huang, Weijia Wang, Xiaogang Zhou, Yu Yu

DPA-Style Attacks on HQC

Cyber

HQC (Hamming Quasi-Cyclic) was selected as the fifth algorithm in the NIST suite of post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) standards. As the only...

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This paper presents a significant contribution to the side-channel analysis of HQC, a code-based post-quantum cryptographic standard. Building upon th...

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