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MAED: Mathematical Activation Error Detection for Mitigating Physical Fault Attacks in DNN Inference
Kasra Ahmadi, Saeed Aghapour, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani +1
The inference phase of deep neural networks (DNNs) in embedded systems is increasingly vulnerable to fault attacks and failures, which can result in incorrect predictions. These vu…
Efficient Algorithm Level Error Detection for Number-Theoretic Transform used for Kyber Assessed on FPGAs and ARM
Kasra Ahmadi, Saeed Aghapour, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani +1
Polynomial multiplication stands out as a highly demanding arithmetic process in the development of post-quantum cryptosystems. The importance of the number-theoretic transform (NT…
Efficient Fault Detection Architectures for Modular Exponentiation Targeting Cryptographic Applications Benchmarked on FPGAs
Saeed Aghapour, Kasra Ahmadi, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani +1
Whether stemming from malicious intent or natural occurrences, faults and errors can significantly undermine the reliability of any architecture. In response to this challenge, fau…
ChatGPT vs. Lightweight Security: First Work Implementing the NIST Cryptographic Standard ASCON
Alvaro Cintas-Canto, Jasmin Kaur, Mehran Mozaffari-Kermani +1
This study, to the best of our knowledge, is the first to explore the intersection between lightweight cryptography (LWC) and advanced artificial intelligence (AI) language models.…
Algorithmic Security is Insufficient: A Comprehensive Survey on Implementation Attacks Haunting Post-Quantum Security
Alvaro Cintas Canto, Jasmin Kaur, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani +1
This survey is on forward-looking, emerging security concerns in post-quantum era, i.e., the implementation attacks for 2022 winners of NIST post-quantum cryptography (PQC) competi…
A Comprehensive Survey on the Implementations, Attacks, and Countermeasures of the Current NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standard
Jasmin Kaur, Alvaro Cintas Canto, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani +1
This survey is the first work on the current standard for lightweight cryptography, standardized in 2023. Lightweight cryptography plays a vital role in securing resource-constrain…
Lightweight Hardware Architectures for Efficient Secure Hash Functions ECHO and Fugue
Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Reza Azarderakhsh, Siavash Bayat-Sarmadi
In cryptographic engineering, extensive attention has been devoted to ameliorating the performance and security of the algorithms within. Nonetheless, in the state-of-the-art, the…
Towards Lightweight Error Detection Schemes for Implementations of MixColumns in Lightweight Cryptography
Anita Aghaie, Mehran Mozaffari Kermani, Reza Azarderakhsh
In this paper, through considering lightweight cryptography, we present a comparative realization of MDS matrices used in the VLSI implementations of lightweight cryptography. We v…