Power monitoring at the edge, is this opening a new door to side-channel attacks?


William Fornaciari, Davide Zoni

Presentation title

Power monitoring at the edge, is this opening a new door to side-channel attacks?

Authors

William Fornaciari, Davide Zoni

Institution(s)

Polytechnic of Milan

Presentation type

Technical presentation

Abstract

The presentation addresses the importance of providing accurate power monitors for cores and accelerators composing an edge platform, focusing on the benefits of implementing in hardware such components.

However, in order to prevent the possibility to exploit such information to mount a side-channel attacks (SCA), it will be presented a methodology to create side-channel resistant power monitors, automatically.

It is also presented a startup company, Blue Signals, commercializing tools to analyze the vulnerability to side channel attacks of hardware platforms.


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