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Attacks below the instruction set
A subject the papers are about. The loosest grouping, and the one to reach for last.
Physical and microarchitectural attacks on what an instruction set never promised. Collects side channels in time and power, fault injection, speculative-execution leaks and memory-disturbance effects -- attacks on a correct implementation rather than on a flawed one. Membership requires the attack to exploit the hardware's behaviour, not a bug in the program running on it.
18 references
Rain: Transiently Leaking Data from Public Clouds Using Old Vulnerabilities
Mathé Hertogh and others (2026) · 2026 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) · IEEE
Fundamentally Understanding and Solving RowHammer
Onur Mutlu and others (2023) · Proceedings of the 28th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference
Transient execution vulnerabilities in the security context of server hardware
Allison Randal (2023) · CL Technical Reports · University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory
SoK: Design Tools for Side-Channel-Aware Implementations
Ileana Buhan and others (2022) · Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security
Securing On-chip Interconnect against Delay Trojan using Dynamic Adaptive Caging
Ruchika Gupta and others (2022) · Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2022
Post quantum cryptographic keys generated with physical unclonable functions
Bertrand Cambou and others (2021) · Applied Sciences
Intrusive Passive Optical Tapping Device
Ismel Dominguez and others (2021) · IEEE Access · Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution
Paul Kocher and others (2019) · 2019 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP) · IEEE
A survey of microarchitectural timing attacks and countermeasures on contemporary hardware
Qian Ge and others (2018) · Journal of Cryptographic Engineering · Springer
Meltdown
Moritz Lipp and others (2018) · arXiv
Meltdown: Reading Kernel Memory from User Space
Moritz Lipp and others (2018) · 27th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 18) · USENIX Association
Pulsed interferometric optical fibre sensor detecting wiretapping in long transmission lines
M. Życzkowski and others (2018) · Opto-Electronics Review · Polish Academy of Sciences Chancellery
On the Power of Optical Contactless Probing: Attacking Bitstream Encryption of FPGAs
Shahin Tajik and others (2017) · Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '17) · Association for Computing Machinery
Hardware Trojan attacks: Threat analysis and countermeasures
Swarup Bhunia and others (2014) · Proceedings of the IEEE
Flipping bits in memory without accessing them: An experimental study of DRAM disturbance errors
Yoongu Kim and others (2014) · 2014 ACM/IEEE 41st International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA)
Optical fiber tapping: Methods and precautions
M. Zafar Iqbal and others (2011) · 8th International Conference on High-capacity Optical Networks and Emerging Technologies · IEEE
Differential Power Analysis
Paul Kocher and others (1999) · Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO '99 · Springer Science+Business Media
Timing Attacks on Implementations of Diffie-Hellman, RSA, DSS, and Other Systems
Paul C. Kocher (1996) · Advances in Cryptology — CRYPTO '96 · Springer Berlin Heidelberg