Electrical-level attacks on CPUs, FPGAs, and GPUs: Survey and implications in the heterogeneous era

DG Mahmoud, V Lenders, M Stojilović - ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Given the need for efficient high-performance computing, computer architectures combining
central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs), and field-programmable …

A visionary look at the security of reconfigurable cloud computing

M Stojilović, K Rasmussen, F Regazzoni… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become critical components in many cloud
computing platforms. These devices possess the fine-grained parallelism and specialization …

FPGA-Patch: Mitigating remote side-channel attacks on FPGAs using dynamic patch generation

MM Ahmadi, L Alrahis, O Sinanoglu… - 2023 IEEE/ACM …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We propose FPGA-Patch, the first-of-its-kind defense that leverages automated program
repair concepts to thwart power side-channel attacks on cloud FPGAs. FPGA-Patch …

A lightweight non-oscillatory delay-sensor for remote power analysis

A Fellah-Touta, L Bossuet… - 2024 IEEE International …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Traditionally, there have been two main obstacles for practical power analysis attacks: the
adversary needed physical access to the device, and they had to use sophisticated sensing …

Instruction-level power side-channel leakage evaluation of soft-core CPUs on shared FPGAs

O Glamočanin, S Shrivastava, J Yao, N Ardo… - Journal of Hardware and …, 2023 - Springer
Side-channel disassembly attacks recover CPU instructions from power or electromagnetic
side-channel traces measured during code execution. These attacks typically rely on …

Shapeshifter: Protecting fpgas from side-channel attacks with isofunctional heterogeneous modules

MM Ahmadi, L Alrahis, O Sinanoglu… - 2023 IEEE 29th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cloud service providers are interested in deploying multi-tenant Field-Programmable Gate
Arrays (FPGAs) for virtualized computation platforms. A primary concern towards such …

Stealthy Logic Misuse for Power Analysis Attacks in Multi-Tenant FPGAs (Extended Version)

V Meyers, DRE Gnad, NM Dang… - Cryptology ePrint …, 2023 - eprint.iacr.org
FPGAs have been used in the cloud since several years, as accelerators for various
workloads such as machine learning, database processes and security tasks. As for other …

Power side-channel attacks and defenses for neural network accelerators

V Meyers, MB Tahoori - 2023 IEEE 31st Annual International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Neural networks are becoming increasingly utilized in a range of real-world applications,
often involving privacy-sensitive or safety-critical tasks like medical image analysis or …

Protecting Parallel Data Encryption in Multi-Tenant FPGAs by Exploring Simple but Effective Clocking Methodologies

Y Zhu, P Zhou - IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Capitalizing on their versatility and high-performance attributes within heterogeneous
designs, increasingly number of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are integrated into …

LDL-SCA: Linearized Deep Learning Side-Channel Attack Targeting Multi-tenant FPGAs✱

Y Zhu, S Liu, L Yang, P Zhou - … of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In recent years, deep-learning side-channel attacks (DL-SCA) have gained increasing
attention due to their enhanced efficacy against cryptographic modules. This paper explores …