NASCTY: Neuroevolution to Attack Side-Channel Leakages Yielding Convolutional Neural Networks

Side-channel analysis (SCA) is a class of attacks on the physical implementation of a cipher, which enables the extraction of confidential key information by exploiting unintended leaks generated by a device. In recent years, researchers have observed that neural networks (NNs) can be utilized to perform highly effective SCA profiling, even...

Neuroevolution Applied to Profiled Side-Channel Attacks

Side-channel attacks (SCA) can obtain secret information related to the private key used during encryption executed on some device by exploiting leakage in power traces produced by the device. In recent years, researchers found that a neural network (NN) can be employed to execute a powerful profiled SCA, even on targets protected with...