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  • This session has been presented March 19, 2021.

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  • Speaker

    Joseph Gravellier

In this talk, we will discuss software-induced hardware attacks and their impact for IoT, cloud and mobile security. More specifically, I will introduce SideLine, a new power side-channel attack vector that can be triggered remotely to infer cryptographic secrets. SideLine is based on the intentional misuse of delay-lines components embedded in SoCs that use external memory. I will explain how we exploit the delay-line relationship with on-chip power consumption to capture side-channel leakage, how we collect and store this information and how we use it to conduct power side-channel attacks. Different scenarios will be discussed along with the feasibility of remote hardware attacks in various scenarios.

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