September 14-18, 2025

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Accepted Papers

TCHES 2025, Issue 1

  1. FANNG-MPC: Framework for Artificial Neural Networks and Generic MPC

    Najwa Aaraj, Abdelrahaman Aly, Tim Güneysu, Chiara Marcolla, Johannes Mono, Rogerio Paludo, Iván Santos-González, Mireia Scholz, Eduardo Soria Vazquez, Victor Sucasas, Ajith Suresh
    Technology Innovation Institute; Ruhr University Bochum
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  2. Trojan Insertion versus Layout Defenses for Modern ICs: Red-versus-Blue Teaming in a Competitive Community Effort

    Johann Knechtel, Mohammad Eslami, Peng Zou, Min Wei, Xingyu Tong, Binggang Qiu, Zhijie Cai, Guohao Chen, Benchao Zhu, Jiawei Li, Jun Yu, Jianli Chen, Chun-Wei Chiu, Min-Feng Hsieh, Chia-Hsiu Ou, Ting-Chi Wang, Bangqi Fu, Qijing Wang, Yang Sun, Qin Luo, Anthony W. H. Lau, Fangzhou Wang, Evangeline F. Y. Young, Shunyang Bi, Guangxin Guo, Haonan Wu, Zhengguang Tang, Hailong You, Cong Li, Ramesh Karri, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Samuel Nascimento Pagliarini
    New York University Abu Dhabi; Fudan University; National Tsing Hua University; Chinese University of Hong Kong; XiDian University; New York University; Tallinn University of Technology; Carnegie Mellon University
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  3. TPUXtract: An Exhaustive Hyperparameter Extraction Framework

    Ashley Kurian, Anuj Dubey, Ferhat Yaman, Aydin Aysu
    North Carolina State University
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  4. Bit t-SNI Secure Multiplication Gadget for Inner Product Masking

    John Gaspoz, Siemen Dhooghe
    KU Leuven
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  5. Trace Copilot: Automatically Locating Cryptographic Operations in Side-Channel Traces by Firmware Binary Instrumenting

    Shipei Qu, Yuxuan Wang, Jintong Yu, Chi Zhang, Dawu Gu
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  6. Multiplying Polynomials without Powerful Multiplication Instructions

    Vincent Hwang, YoungBeom Kim, Seog Chung Seo
    Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Kookmin University
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  7. FalconSign: An Efficient and High-Throughput Hardware Architecture for Falcon Signature Generation

    Yi Ouyang, Yihong Zhu, Wenping Zhu, Bohan Yang, Zirui Zhang, Qichao Tao, Hanning Wang, Min Zhu, Shaojun Wei, Leibo Liu
    Tsinghua University; Wuxi Micro Innovation Integrated Circuit Design Co. Ltd.
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  8. Call Rewinding: Efficient Backward Edge Protection

    Téo Biton, Olivier Gilles, Daniel Gracia Pérez, Nikolaï Kosmatov, Sébastien Pillement
    Thales Research & Technology; Nantes Université
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  9. OT-PCA: New Key-Recovery Plaintext-Checking Oracle Based Side-Channel Attacks on HQC with Offline Templates

    Haiyue Dong, Qian Guo
    Independent Researcher; Lund University
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  10. A High-performance NTT/MSM Accelerator for Zero-knowledge Proof Using Load-balanced Fully-pipelined Montgomery Multiplier

    Xiangren Chen, Bohan Yang, Wenping Zhu, Hanning Wang, Qichao Tao, Shuying Yin, Min Zhu, Shaojun Wei, Leibo Liu
    Tsinghua University; Wuxi Micro Innovation Integrated Circuit Design Co. Ltd.
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  11. GPU Acceleration for FHEW/TFHE Bootstrapping

    Yu Xiao, Feng-Hao Liu, Yu-Te Ku, Ming-Chien Ho, Chih-Fan Hsu, Ming-Ching Chang, Shih-Hao Hung, Wei-Chao Chen
    National Taiwan University; Inventec Corp.; Washington State University; Academia Sinica; University at Albany; Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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  12. Extending Randomness-Free First-Order Masking Schemes and Applications to Masking-Friendly S-boxes

    Lixuan Wu, Yanhong Fan, Weijia Wang, Bart Preneel, Meiqin Wang
    Shandong University; KU Leuven
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  13. Full Key-Recovery Cubic-Time Template Attack on Classic McEliece Decapsulation

    Vlad-Florin Drăgoi, Brice Colombier, Nicolas Vallet, Pierre-Louis Cayrel, Vincent Grosso
    Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad; Université Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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  14. PhaseSCA: Exploiting Phase-Modulated Emanations in Side Channels

    Pierre AYOUB, Aurélien HERNANDEZ, Romain CAYRE, Aurélien FRANCILLON, Clémentine MAURICE
    EURECOM; Université Lille
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  15. Dash: Accelerating Distributed Private Convolutional Neural Network Inference with Arithmetic Garbled Circuits

    Jonas Sander, Sebastian Berndt, Ida Bruhns, Thomas Eisenbarth
    University of Lübeck; Technische Hochschule Lübeck
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  16. Perceived Information Revisited II: Information-Theoretical Analysis of Deep-Learning Based Side-Channel Attacks

    Akira Ito, Rei Ueno, Naofumi Homma
    NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Kyoto University; Tohoku University
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  17. Blind-Folded: Simple Power Analysis Attacks using Data with a Single Trace and no Training

    Xunyue Hu, Quentin Meunier, Emmanuelle Encrenaz
    Sorbonne Université
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  18. Optimized One-Dimensional SQIsign Verification on Intel and Cortex-M4

    Marius A. Aardal, Gora Adj, Arwa Alblooshi, Diego F. Aranha, Isaac A. Canales-Martínez, Jorge Chavez-Saab, Décio Luiz Gazzoni Filho, Krijn Reijnders, Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez
    Aarhus University; Technology Innovation Institute; Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Radboud University
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  19. Random Probing Security with Precomputation

    Bohan Wang, Fanjie Ji, Yiteng Sun, Weijia Wang
    Shandong University
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  20. Prover - Toward More Efficient Formal Verification of Masking in Probing Model

    Feng Zhou, Hua Chen, Limin Fan
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  21. A Framework for Generating S-Box Circuits with Boyar–Peralta Algorithm-Based Heuristics, and Its Applications to AES, SNOW3G, and Saturnin

    Jongsung Kim, Yongjin Jeon, Seungjun Baek, Giyoon Kim
    Kookmin University
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  22. Optimized Software Implementation of Keccak, Kyber, and Dilithium on RV{32,64}IM{B}{V}

    Jipeng Zhang, Yuxing Yan, Junhao Huang, Cetin Kaya Koc
    Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Shanghai Aerospace Electronic Technology Institute; Hong Kong Baptist University; Iğdır University; University of California Santa Barbara
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  23. Efficient and Composable Masked AES S-Box Designs Using Optimized Inverters

    Vedad Hadžić, Roderick Bloem
    Graz University of Technology
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TCHES 2025, Issue 2

  1. Improving MPCitH with Preprocessing: Mask Is All You Need

    Guowei Liu, Guoxiao Liu, Kaijie Jiang, Qingyuan Yu, Keting Jia, Puwen Wei, Meiqin Wang
    Shandong University; Tsinghua University
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  2. MulLeak: Exploiting Multiply Instruction Leakage to Attack the Stack-optimized Kyber Implementation on Cortex-M4

    Fan Huang, Xiaolin Duan, Chengcong Hu, Mengce Zheng, Honggang Hu
    University of Science and Technology of China; Zhejiang Wanli University
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  3. SeaFlame: Communication-Efficient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning against Malicious Entities

    Jinling Tang, Haixia Xu, Huimei Liao, Yinchang Zhou
    Chinese Academy of Sciences; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  4. Leaky McEliece: Secret Key Recovery From Highly Erroneous Side-Channel Information

    Marcus Brinkmann, Chitchanok Chuengsatiansup, Alexander May, Julian Nowakowski, Yuval Yarom
    Ruhr University Bochum; University of Klagenfurt
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  5. TFHE Gets Real: An Efficient and Flexible Homomorphic Floating-Point Arithmetic

    Loris Bergerat, Ilaria Chillotti, Damien Ligier, Jean-Baptiste Orfila, Samuel Tap
    Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Zama
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  6. REED: Chiplet-based Accelerator for Fully Homomorphic Encryption

    Aikata Aikata, Ahmet Can Mert, Sunmin Kwon, Maxim Deryabin, Sujoy Sinha Roy
    Graz University of Technology; Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology
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  7. KyberSlash: Exploiting Secret-Dependent Division Timings in Kyber Implementations

    Daniel J. Bernstein, Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Shivam Bhasin, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Tee Kiah Chia, Matthias J. Kannwischer, Franziskus Kiefer, Thales Paiva, Prasanna Ravi, Goutam Tamvada
    University of Illinois at Chicago; Academia Sinica; Inria; Cryspen; Nanyang Technological University; Quantum Safe Migration Center; Chelpis Quantum Corp; University of Sao Paulo
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  8. Higher-Order Time Sharing Masking

    Dilip Kumar Shanmugasundaram Veeraraghavan, Siemen Dhooghe, Josep Balasch, Benedikt Gierlichs, Ingrid Verbauwhede
    KU Leuven
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  9. CHERI-Crypt: Transparent Memory Encryption on Capability Architectures

    Jennifer Jackson, Minmin Jiang, David Oswald
    University of Birmingham
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  10. A Code-Based ISE to Protect Boolean Masking in Software

    Qi Tian, Hao Cheng, Chun Guo, Daniel Page, Meiqin Wang, Weijia Wang
    Shandong University; University of Bristol
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  11. Leading Degree: A Metric for Model Performance Evaluation and Hyperparameter Tuning in Deep Learning-Based Side-Channel Analysis

    Junfan Zhu, Jiqiang Lu
    Beihang University
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  12. Sieving with Streaming Memory Access

    Ziyu Zhao, Jintai Ding, Bo-Yin Yang
    Tsinghua University; Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University; Basque Center For Applied Mathematics; Academia Sinica
    TCHES PDF

  13. Shortcut2Secrets: A Table-based Differential Fault Attack Framework

    Weizhe Wang, Pierrick Méaux, Deng Tang
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University of Luxembourg
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  14. All-You-Can-Compute: Packed Secret Sharing for Combined Resilience

    Sebastian Faust, Maximilian Orlt, Kathrin Wirschem, Liang Zhao
    Technical University of Darmstadt
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  15. Protection of Oscillator-Based PUFs against Side Channel Analyses by Random Interruption

    Holger Mandry, Jonas Ruchti, Julius Nowakowski, Michael Pehl, Maurits Ortmanns
    University of Ulm; University of Munich
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  16. OPTIMSM: FPGA hardware accelerator for Zero-Knowledge MSM

    Xander Pottier, Thomas de Ruijter, Jonas Bertels, Wouter Legiest, Michiel Van Beirendonck, Ingrid Verbauwhede
    KU Leuven
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  17. Constant time lattice reduction in dimension 4 with application to SQIsign

    Otto Hanyecz, Alexander Karenin, Elena Kirshanova, Péter Kutas, Sina Schaeffler
    Eötvös Loránd University; Technology Innovation Institute; University of Birmingham; ETH Zürich; IBM Research Europe
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  18. Designing a General-Purpose 8-bit (T)FHE Processor Abstraction

    Daphné Trama, Renaud Sirdey, Aymen Boudguiga, Pierre-Emmanuel Clet, Nicolas Ye
    CEA LIST; Université Paris-Saclay
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  19. A TRAP for SAT: On the Imperviousness of a Transistor-Level Programmable Fabric to Satisfiability-Based Attacks

    Aric Fowler, Shayan Mohammed, Mustafa Shihab, Thomas Broadfoot, Peter Beerel, Carl Sechen, Yiorgos Makris
    University of Texas at Dallas; University of Southern California
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  20. Information Theoretic Analysis of PUF-Based Tamper Protection

    Georg Maringer, Matthias Hiller
    Technical University of Munich; Fraunhofer AISEC
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  21. Rudraksh: A Compact and Lightweight Post-Quantum Key-Encapsulation Mechanism

    Suparna Kundu, Archisman Ghosh, Angshuman Karmakar, Shreyas Sen, Ingrid Verbauwhede
    KU Leuven; Purdue University; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
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  22. SimdMSM: SIMD-accelerated Multi-Scalar Multiplication Framework for zkSNARKs

    Rui Jiang, Cong Peng, Min Luo, Rongmao Chen, Debiao He
    Wuhan University; National University of Defense Technology
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  23. AETHER: An Ultra-High Throughput and Low Energy Authenticated Encryption Scheme

    Subhadeep Banik, Andrea Caforio, Tatsuya Ishikawa, Takanori Isobe, Mustafizar Rahman, Kosei Sakamoto
    University of Lugano; lowRISC C.I.C.; University of Hyogo; Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
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  24. Skyscraper: Fast Hashing on Big Primes

    Fabian Schmid, Clémence Bouvier, Lorenzo Grassi, Dmitry Khovratovich, Katharina Koschatko, Christian Rechberger, Markus Schofnegger
    University of Technology Graz; Ruhr University Bochum; Ethereum Foundation; Fabric Cryptography
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  25. New Quantum Cryptanalysis of Binary Elliptic Curves

    Kyungbae Jang, Vikas Srivastava, Anubhab Baksi, Santanu Sarkar, Hwajeong Seo
    Hansung University; Indian Institute of Technology Madras; Nanyang Technological University
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