The paper introduces a four-stage structural dependency analysis hierarchy that enables scalable, sound first-order masking verification for large, production-level post-quantum cryptographic accelera…

The paper provides machine-checked proofs demonstrating that fresh per-stage arithmetic masking ensures pipeline-level security for Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) accelerators used in Post-Quantum C…

The paper provides the first machine-checked universal proof, using ring theory, that value-independence implies identical marginal distributions for arithmetic masking, thereby extending the verifica…

The paper proposes MaskedHLSVerif, a novel formal verification toolflow that accurately verifies the Power Side Channel Attack (PSCA) security of masked hardware generated by High Level Synthesis (HLS…

The paper proposes a hybrid ASIC+eFPGA architecture to enhance the security and resilience of edge LLM inference accelerators against both runtime and supply-chain attacks.

This paper provides an explicit cost analysis of Toom-4 multiplication specifically tailored for the incomplete Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) framework, offering a concrete cost model for hybrid la…

This review analyzes the dual impact of integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into hardware design, detailing both their transformative potential in EDA and the critical security vulnerabilities th…

This paper provides the first systematic, isolated benchmarks of NIST-standardized post-quantum cryptography (ML-KEM and ML-DSA) on the highly constrained ARM Cortex-M0+ processor, showing performance…

This paper proves that the per-observation leakage bound for deep, multi-stage masked Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) pipelines remains constant and low ($2/q$), regardless of the pipeline's depth ($…

This paper demonstrates a novel attack against the shuffling defense used in secure Transformer inference, showing that randomly permuted activations can still be exploited to recover model weights.

The paper establishes a universal, machine-checked 1-Bit Barrier for the internal wire map of masked Barrett reduction, providing a strong side-channel leakage bound for post-quantum cryptography.

The paper introduces a novel threat model, approximate obfuscation, and proposes a framework to detect IP piracy in approximate circuits by comparing their statistical error profiles.

The paper proposes a method for bit-exact verification of AI inference outputs without sacrificing performance, demonstrating that deterministic, precise re-computation is possible even across differe…

The paper establishes the first machine-checked composition theorems for arithmetic masking over prime fields, demonstrating that fresh random masking between pipeline stages completely erases securit…

The paper introduces SeedHijack, a backdoor attack that manipulates the pseudorandom number generation process in LLMs to force specific token selections, and proposes a hardware quantum random number…

The paper introduces DiffusionHijack, a supply-chain backdoor attack that compromises the PRNG used by diffusion models to deterministically control generated images, which is successfully mitigated b…

This paper introduces a novel algorithm, CiSC, to efficiently and optimally synthesize circuit implementations of linear codes for hardware security, significantly outperforming existing state-of-the-…

The paper introduces a novel hardware aging attack that exploits the commutative properties of addition to induce unbalanced stress on AI accelerator transistors, significantly degrading model accurac…

The paper introduces SeedHijack, a novel, undetectable supply-chain attack that biases LLM watermarking signals by hijacking the underlying Pseudo-Random Number Generator (PRNG) without altering the g…

The paper introduces SeedHijack, a novel, undetectable supply-chain attack that biases LLM watermarking signals by hijacking the underlying PRNG, thereby amplifying the watermark without altering the…