The Circle of DL-SCA: Improving Deep Learning-based Side-channel Analysis

For almost three decades, side-channel analysis has represented a realistic and severe threat to embedded devices' security. As a well-known and influential class of implementation attacks, side-channel analysis has been applied against cryptographic implementations, processors, communication systems, and, more recently, machine learning models....

Reinforcement Learning-Based Design of Side-Channel Countermeasures

Deep learning-based side-channel attacks are capable of breaking targets protected with countermeasures. The constant progress in the last few years makes the attacks more powerful, requiring fewer traces to break a target. Unfortunately, to protect against such attacks, we still rely solely on methods developed to protect against generic...

Remove Some Noise: On Pre-processing of Side-channel Measurements with Autoencoders

In the profiled side-channel analysis, deep learning-based techniques proved to be very successful even when attacking targets protected with countermeasures. Still, there is no guarantee that deep learning attacks will always succeed. Various countermeasures make attacks significantly more complex, and such countermeasures can be further...