Side Channel Attacks in Embedded Systems

Dear Colleagues,

In recent years, researchers have demonstrated that modern computing systems are vulnerable from both computational and storage perspectives, and most of the performance optimizations present in modern-day computing systems can potentially expose them to adversaries and the leakage of critical information. These existing vulnerabilities lead to side-channel information leakage in many different ways, from physical to microarchitectural information. Moreover, new leakage channels keep appearing in existing architecture. Thus, the real attack surface is still unknown, both at software and hardware levels.

Side-channel analysis (SCA) has, therefore, become an important field of research. Side-channel attacks exploit existing vulnerabilities in order to extract privileged information at both physical and computational and storage levels. In order to enhance the resistance of cryptographic and security critical implementations within the design phase, countermeasures and analysis techniques are mandatory. Quality metrics regarding security are also required in order to optimize the design and development process.

This Special Issue is seeking original papers presenting attacks and exploitations, secure implementation, secure design and evaluation tools, detection techniques, and software and hardware countermeasure techniques, with a special focus on side-channel attacks.

Prof. Dr. Guy Gogniat
Prof. Dr. Vianney Lapotre
Dr. Maria Mushtaq
Guest Editors

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