[Resource Topic] 2025/011: DL-SCADS: Deep Learning-Based Post-Silicon Side-Channel Analysis Using Decomposed Signal

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Title:
DL-SCADS: Deep Learning-Based Post-Silicon Side-Channel Analysis Using Decomposed Signal

Authors: Dipayan Saha, Farimah Farahmandi

Abstract:

Side-channel analysis (SCA) does not aim at the algorithm’s weaknesses but rather its implementations. The rise of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) is giving adversaries advanced capabilities to perform stealthy attacks. In this paper, we propose DL-SCADS, a DL-based approach along with signal decomposition techniques to leverage the power of secret key extraction from post-silicon EM/power side-channel traces. We integrate previously proven effective ideas of model ensembling and automated hyperparameter tuning with signal decomposition to develop an efficient and robust side-channel attack. Extensive experiments are performed on Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) to demonstrate the efficacy of our approach. The evaluation of the performance of the side-channel attack employing various decomposition techniques and comparison with the proposed approach in a range of datasets are also tabulated.

ePrint: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/011

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