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Chypothermia: Clock Freezing for Static Side-channel Attacks
Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana, Mehmet Ali Cetin, Xinrui Wang +3
Static side-channel attacks, which exploit halted-clock conditions to extract sensitive information, pose an increasing threat to chip security. To counter these attacks, various d…
LLMscope: Extracting LLM Assets from Edge AI Chips via Optical Probing
Dev Mehta, Lily Dukette, William Folan +4
The move of LLM inference to edge AI accelerators introduces new physical vulnerabilities. During execution, model parameters and intermediate inference states are repeatedly loade…
Timing and Memory Telemetry on GPUs for AI Governance
Saleh K. Monfared, Fatemeh Ganji, Dan Holcomb +1
The rapid expansion of GPU-accelerated computing has enabled major advances in large-scale artificial intelligence (AI), while heightening concerns about how accelerators are obser…
Rubber Mallet: A Study of High Frequency Localized Bit Flips and Their Impact on Security
Andrew Adiletta, Zane Weissman, Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana +2
The increasing density of modern DRAM has heightened its vulnerability to Rowhammer attacks, which induce bit flips by repeatedly accessing specific memory rows. This paper present…
There's Waldo: PCB Tamper Forensic Analysis using Explainable AI on Impedance Signatures
Maryam Saadat Safa, Seyedmohammad Nouraniboosjin, Fatemeh Ganji +1
The security of printed circuit boards (PCBs) has become increasingly vital as supply chain vulnerabilities, including tampering, present significant risks to electronic systems. W…
Chypnosis: Undervolting-based Static Side-channel Attacks
Kyle Mitard, Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana +3
Static side-channel analysis attacks, which rely on a stopped clock to extract sensitive information, pose a growing threat to embedded systems' security. To protect against such a…
Logical Maneuvers: Detecting and Mitigating Adversarial Hardware Faults in Space
Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana, Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Shahin Tajik
Satellites are highly vulnerable to adversarial glitches or high-energy radiation in space, which could cause faults on the onboard computer. Various radiation- and fault-tolerant…
Evaluating Vulnerability of Chiplet-Based Systems to Contactless Probing Techniques
Aleksa Deric, Kyle Mitard, Shahin Tajik +1
Driven by a need for ever increasing chip performance and inclusion of innovative features, a growing number of semiconductor companies are opting for all-inclusive System-on-Chip…
LaserEscape: Detecting and Mitigating Optical Probing Attacks
Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Kyle Mitard, Andrew Cannon +2
The security of integrated circuits (ICs) can be broken by sophisticated physical attacks relying on failure analysis methods. Optical probing is one of the most prominent examples…
Parasitic Circus:On the Feasibility of Golden Free PCB Verification
Maryam Saadat Safa, Patrick Schaumont, Shahin Tajik
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are an integral part of electronic systems. Hence, verifying their physical integrity in the presence of supply chain attacks (e.g., tampering and cou…
RandOhm: Mitigating Impedance Side-channel Attacks using Randomized Circuit Configurations
Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Domenic Forte, Shahin Tajik
Physical side-channel attacks can compromise the security of integrated circuits. Most physical side-channel attacks (e.g., power or electromagnetic) exploit the dynamic behavior o…
LeakyOhm: Secret Bits Extraction using Impedance Analysis
Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Tahoura Mosavirik, Shahin Tajik
The threats of physical side-channel attacks and their countermeasures have been widely researched. Most physical side-channel attacks rely on the unavoidable influence of computat…
Counterfeit Chip Detection using Scattering Parameter Analysis
Maryam Saadat Safa, Tahoura Mosavirik, Shahin Tajik
The increase in the number of counterfeit and recycled microelectronic chips in recent years has created significant security and safety concerns in various applications. Hence, de…
A Survey and Perspective on Artificial Intelligence for Security-Aware Electronic Design Automation
David Selasi Koblah, Rabin Yu Acharya, Daniel Capecci +5
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) techniques have been increasingly used in several fields to improve performance and the level of automation. In recent years,…
Trojan Awakener: Detecting Dormant Malicious Hardware Using Laser Logic State Imaging (Extended Version)
Thilo Krachenfels, Jean-Pierre Seifert, Shahin Tajik
The threat of hardware Trojans (HTs) and their detection is a widely studied field. While the effort for inserting a Trojan into an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) c…
Programmable RO (PRO): A Multipurpose Countermeasure against Side-channel and Fault Injection Attack
Yuan Yao, Pantea Kiaei, Richa Singh +2
Side-channel and fault injection attacks reveal secret information by monitoring or manipulating the physical effects of computations involving secret variables. Circuit-level coun…
Automatic Extraction of Secrets from the Transistor Jungle using Laser-Assisted Side-Channel Attacks
Thilo Krachenfels, Tuba Kiyan, Shahin Tajik +1
The security of modern electronic devices relies on secret keys stored on secure hardware modules as the root-of-trust (RoT). Extracting those keys would break the security of the…
Real-World Snapshots vs. Theory: Questioning the t-Probing Security Model
Thilo Krachenfels, Fatemeh Ganji, Amir Moradi +2
Due to its sound theoretical basis and practical efficiency, masking has become the most prominent countermeasure to protect cryptographic implementations against physical side-cha…
Physically Unclonable Functions and AI: Two Decades of Marriage
Fatemeh Ganji, Shahin Tajik
The current chapter aims at establishing a relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and hardware security. Such a connection between AI and software security has been conf…
Artificial Neural Networks and Fault Injection Attacks
Shahin Tajik, Fatemeh Ganji
This chapter is on the security assessment of artificial intelligence (AI) and neural network (NN) accelerators in the face of fault injection attacks. More specifically, it discus…
Defense-in-Depth: A Recipe for Logic Locking to Prevail
M Tanjidur Rahman, M Sazadur Rahman, Huanyu Wang +6
Logic locking has emerged as a promising solution for protecting the semiconductor intellectual Property (IP) from the untrusted entities in the design and fabrication process. Log…