01▲ARMOR-IMC: Adaptive Resource Mapping for Operational Robustness via Secure In-Memory Computing arxiv.org Post-training defense for analog in-memory accelerators, maps around process faults and power leakage without retraining.arxivcryptanalysisfault-injectionhardware-securityin-memory-computingprivacyside-channel2 pts/nonce23/12 hours ago/4 comments
02▲ZK-Audit: Proving Power Side-Channel Resilience in Synthesized Hardware eprint.iacr.org Can a Halo2 zkVM prove synthesized hardware is power-side-channel safe without leaking the netlist? Apparently, yes.cryptanalysiseprinthalo2hardware-securityhashside-channelsignaturessnarkzkzkvm10 pts/mei_schnorr/3 days ago/1 comment
03▲PQC hardening for ML-DSA on Pavona ACC zerorisc.com First-order DPA-hardened ML-DSA on Pavona ACC, with bitsliced masking tricks and benchmarks for ML-DSA-44/65/87.bitslicingdpaembeddedfips-204hardwarelatticelinkedinmaskingpqcside-channelsignatures3 pts/ivan/4 days ago/6 comments
04▲[acc,masking] Add first-order masked ML-DSA key generation and signing github.com First-order masked ML-DSA keygen/signing for Pavona ACC, reusing masked KMAC and aiming at DPA resistance?dpalatticelinkedinmaskingpqcside-channelsignatures4 pts/nonce23/4 days ago/discuss
05▲Maskaglia: A New, Efficient Approach to Masked Discrete Gaussian Sampling eprint.iacr.org Rejection sampling, the old side-channel workhorse, beats CDT here with fewer masked ANDs for lattice Gaussians (incl. HAWK).discrete-gaussian-samplinglatticelinkedinmaskingpqcprivacyside-channelsignatures11 pts/ringlwe/5 days ago/1 comment
06▲Srini Devadas earns the 2026 ACM-IEEE CS Eckert-Mauchly Award | MIT CSAIL csail.mit.edu MIT CSAIL profile of Srini Devadas's 2026 Eckert-Mauchly Award, with his work on secure processors, PUFs, and PAC Privacy.applied-cryptographycryptographyhardware-securitylinkedinprivacypufsecure-architectureside-channel7 pts/evanm/5 days ago/discuss
07▲Observer-Quotient Security: Composable Leakage Bounds for Hidden State Continuations arxiv.org A composable leakage framework for adaptive observers, finally unifying transcripts, timing, cache, power, and EM without ad hoc glue.arxivcryptographyencryptionhashleakageprivacysecurityside-channeltiming4 pts/nonce99/7 days ago/1 comment
08▲Post-Quantum Cryptography In The Ledger SDK ledger.com Ledger ports ML-KEM/ML-DSA into its SDK, proving the NIST PQ stack can fit in a secure element if you shave hard enough.blockchainembedded-systemshashlatticepqcside-channelsignaturestwitter2 pts/metaleak/7 days ago/2 comments
09▲Reducing Multiplicative Complexity via Conjugate Cipher eprint.iacr.org Can conjugating a block cipher really cut multiplications? This paper says yes, with SKINNY getting leaner.block-ciphercryptanalysiseprintimplementationmultiplicative-complexityside-channelskinnnytransciphering1 pt/ringlwe/7 days ago/discuss
10▲Halfspace Learning for Lattice Signature Key Recovery from Signs eprint.iacr.org How little sign leakage breaks Falcon, HAWK, and ML-DSA? Apparently enough to turn key recovery into halfspace learning.cryptanalysiseprintlatticepqcside-channelsignatures1 pt/leograf/7 days ago/discuss
11▲Securing Deep Learning Hardware: A Survey of Side-Channel Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures arxiv.org Survey of deep-learning hardware side channels, mapping leakage to model, weights, and inputs, then the usual countermeasure laundry list.arxivcryptanalysisdeep-learninghardwaremachine-learningprivacyside-channel10 pts/mdiaz/7 days ago/3 comments
12▲Chinese researchers find a peephole to any smartphone in its leaked radio signal scmp.com Can stray RF emissions really fingerprint which app you tapped? This paper says yes, forensics-style.electromagnetic-leakageforensicsmobile-securityprivacyside-channeltwitter2 pts/evanm/7 days ago/2 comments
13▲Hardware Private Cubic Circuits eprint.iacr.org HPCC gives single-cycle masked 3-input multiplies and 2-cycle AES S-boxes in the PINI glitch model.cipher-sboxeprintfinite-fieldshardwaremaskingpiniside-channel10 pts/nonce99/10 days ago/discuss
14▲GitHub - mytechnotalent/ouroboros github.com Bare-metal ATmega328P auth engine in AVR asm, with Speck, CTR, MAC checks, and a tiny decrypted bytecode interpreter.avrctrembedded-cryptographyhashmacmastodonprivacyside-channelsignaturesspecktiming-attack5 pts/nullptr42/10 days ago/1 comment
15▲A Non-Line-of-Sight, Multi-Modality-based Side-Channel IP Theft Attack on Additive Manufacturing Using Dual Smartphones arxiv.org Two smartphones do off-axis acoustic plus magnetic G-code theft from 3D printers, because confidentiality is optional.acousticsadditive-manufacturingarxivcryptanalysismagneticsprivacysecurityside-channel7 pts/deadlock7/12 days ago/3 comments
16▲SEALSQ to Bring Post Quantum Security to the Automotive Industry cioinfluence.com Is this an automotive PQC roadmap, or just a chip vendor turning quantum into a buzzword? TPMs, HSMs, ASICs, ISO 21434.automotivechipletsfault-injectionhardware-security-modulepqcsafetyside-channeltwitter5 pts/honestmaj/12 days ago/discuss
17▲Exploring Side-Channel Protections in Hardware Implementations of PQC ML-KEM Verification arxiv.org Can FPGA parallelism still rip masked ML-KEM verification apart? This paper says yes, even when microcontrollers look safer.arxivcryptanalysisfpgashardware-securityhashlatticepqcside-channel1 pt/mfrost/13 days ago/1 comment
18▲A Second-Order Side-Channel Attack on Masked Kyber768 | Ledger Donjon donjon.ledger.com First-order masking still folds to second-order CPA on masked Kyber768 on Cortex-M4, with leakage models and SNR plots.cpacryptanalysiskyberlatticeleakage-analysislinkedinmaskingml-kempqcsecond-orderside-channel4 pts/pavelk/13 days ago/1 comment
19▲GlobalPlatform Launches Pavona: The First Open Silicon Distribution with Production-Grade Post-Quantum Cryptography pavona.org GlobalPlatform’s Pavona is an open silicon distro with PQC, root-of-trust IP, and the usual certification paperwork.certificationcryptographyembeddedhardware-securitylinkedinpost-quantumpqcrisc-vroot-of-trustside-channelsilicon1 pt/nadiaf/17 days ago/1 comment
20▲Secure Coding Drift in LLM-Assisted Post-Quantum Cryptography Development: A Gamified Fix arxiv.org A paper on how LLM-assisted PQC work slowly drifts from constant-time discipline, then tries to gamify the fix.arxivconstant-timellmpqcsecure-codingside-channelsoftware-security0 pts/mei_schnorr/19 days ago/1 comment
21▲DISARM: Target Electronic Device Informed Mitigation of Software Runtime Side-Channel Vulnerabilities arxiv.org Can hardware-guided patching actually fix runtime side channels without over or under-shooting? DISARM says maybe.arxivcryptanalysisembeddedside-channelsoftware-securitytiming-attacks0 pts/theolowe/20 days ago/1 comment
22▲MIPSBLEED: Uncovering Microarchitectural Timing Leaks in Pervasive Embedded Processors arxiv.org Paper on MIPS timing side channels in embedded CPUs, with cache and execution-engine leakage, because routers needed more drama.arxivcachecryptanalysiselliptic-curveembedded-systemsmicroarchitectureprivacyside-channeltiming-attacks0 pts/max/21 days ago/3 comments
23▲obliv-clang: Real-World Oblivious Programming in C++ arxiv.org obliv-clang adds compile-time obliviousness checks to C++, including nested pointers, which is more than the usual toy subset.arxivc++compilerscryptanalysisoblivious-programmingprivacyside-channel0 pts/mei_schnorr/22 days ago/1 comment
24▲Hardening ML-KEM for Pavona's ACC zerorisc.com First-order masked ML-KEM for Pavona's ACC fits under 22 KB DMEM and costs 2.6x to 3.4x, because side channels insist.hardwarehashimplementationkeccaklatticelinkedinmaskingpqcside-channel0 pts/proverbill/23 days ago/2 comments
25▲Side-Channel Attacks Bypass Protection in 3D Printers arxiv.org Paper on AMNC for 3D printers: acoustics get killed, vibrations still leak enough to keep the attack alive, naturally.acoustic-leakagearxivcryptanalysisprivacysecurityside-channel0 pts/verak/24 days ago/2 comments
26▲OTRO: Oblivious Tokenization Path with Square-Root ORAM arxiv.org OTRO swaps the usual tokenizer side-channel mess for square-root ORAM plus replicas, aiming to keep TTFT tolerable.arxivconfidential-computingllmoramprivacyside-channeltokenization0 pts/evanholt/26 days ago/1 comment
27▲Gerrymandering the Warp: Non-Control-Data Attacks on CUDA Collective Decision arxiv.org Can you brick a CUDA collective by flipping its masks, lanes, or epochs? This paper says yes, then adds CICs.arxivcryptanalysiscudaformal-methodsgpumemory-safetysecurityside-channel0 pts/kzima/1 month ago/5 comments
28▲Post-quantum cryptography challenges for embedded hardware electronicsweekly.com Embedded PQC gets the usual laundry list, but here the point is hardware pain: RAM, bandwidth, no accelerators, and hybrid stopgaps.embedded-systemshardwarehashlatticenistpqcside-channelsignaturestwitter0 pts/max_carry/1 month ago/5 comments
29▲SoK: The Constant Time Model arxiv.org SoK on constant-time models, plus an attack that finds private-key loading leaks in OpenSSL and BoringSSL outside the primitive.arxivconstant-timecryptanalysisprivacyside-channelsignatures0 pts/anyaw/1 month ago/3 comments
30▲[acc,masking] Add masked ML-KEM decaps and keygen, plus masking gadgets by pqcfox · Pull Request #230 · pavona/pavona github.com PR adds fully masked ML-KEM decaps/keygen plus masking gadgets for Pavona's crypto coprocessor, with the usual register fuss.hardwarelatticelinkedinmaskingml-kempqcside-channel0 pts/tara_stderr/1 month ago/5 comments