FPGA side channel attacks without physical access

C Ramesh, SB Patil, SN Dhanuskodi… - 2018 IEEE 26th …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As FPGA use becomes more diverse, the shared use of these devices becomes a security
concern. Multi-tenant FPGAs that contain circuits from multiple independent sources or users …

Voltage drop-based fault attacks on FPGAs using valid bitstreams

DRE Gnad, F Oboril, MB Tahoori - 2017 27th International …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the widespread use of FPGAs in many critical application domains, their security is of
high concern. In recent systems, such as FPGAs in the Cloud or in Systems-on-Chip (SoCs) …

Thermal covert channels on multi-core platforms

RJ Masti, D Rai, A Ranganathan, C Müller… - 24th USENIX security …, 2015 - usenix.org
Side channels remain a challenge to information flow control and security in modern
computing platforms. Resource partitioning techniques that minimise the number of shared …

Leveraging 3D technologies for hardware security: Opportunities and challenges

P Gu, S Li, D Stow, R Barnes, L Liu, Y Xie… - Proceedings of the 26th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
3D die stacking and 2.5 D interposer design are promising technologies to improve
integration density, performance and cost. Current approaches face serious issues in …

Leaky wires: Information leakage and covert communication between FPGA long wires

I Giechaskiel, KB Rasmussen, K Eguro - … of the 2018 on Asia Conference …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are integrated circuits that implement
reconfigurable hardware. They are used in modern systems, creating specialized, highly …

C3APSULe: Cross-FPGA Covert-Channel Attacks through Power Supply Unit Leakage

I Giechaskiel, KB Rasmussen… - 2020 IEEE Symposium …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are versatile, reconfigurable integrated circuits
that can be used as hardware accelerators to process highly-sensitive data. Leaking this …

Physical side-channel attacks and covert communication on FPGAs: A survey

SS Mirzargar, M Stojilović - 2019 29th International Conference …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are, like CPUs, susceptible to side-channel
information leakage and covert communication. The malleability of FPGAs enables users to …

Reading between the dies: Cross-SLR covert channels on multi-tenant cloud FPGAs

I Giechaskiel, K Rasmussen… - 2019 IEEE 37th …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are becoming increasingly available via
commercial cloud providers, which currently allocate devices on a per-user basis. As the …

On the capacity of thermal covert channels in multicores

DB Bartolini, P Miedl, L Thiele - Proceedings of the Eleventh European …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Modern multicore processors feature easily accessible temperature sensors that provide
useful information for dynamic thermal management. These sensors were recently shown to …

Leakier wires: Exploiting FPGA long wires for covert-and side-channel attacks

I Giechaskiel, K Eguro, KB Rasmussen - ACM Transactions on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In complex FPGA designs, implementations of algorithms and protocols from third-party
sources are common. However, the monolithic nature of FPGAs means that all sub-circuits …