CHES 2026

October 11-15, 2026

Antalya, Türkiye

Accepted Papers

TCHES 2026, Issue 1

  1. PipFHE: Resource-Efficient Privacy-Preserving Deep CNN Inference via Padded Batch Packing and Channel Merging over FHE

    Tianyu Wang, Zewen Ye, Tianshun Huang, Chengxuan Wang, Kuangye Ying, Kejie Huang
    Zhejiang University
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  2. A Mirrored-Circuits Approach for Low-Latency and Low-Randomness Composable PINI Gadgets

    Lixuan Wu, Yanhong Fan, Jiahui He, Guowei Liu, Chaoran Wang, Meiqin Wang
    Shandong University
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  3. Scalable Information Theoretic Evaluation of the Rank Statistics in Side-Channel Attacks

    Julien Béguinot, François-Xavier Standaert, Olivier Rioul, Loïc Masure, Sylvain Guilley, Wei Cheng
    Institut Polytechnique de Paris; UCLouvain; CNRS; University of Montpellier; Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Secure-IC S.A.S
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  4. Don’t be mean: Reducing Approximation Noise in TFHE through Mean Compensation

    Thomas de Ruijter, Jan-Pieter D'Anvers, Ingrid Verbauwhede
    KU Leuven
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  5. Homomorphic Field Trace Revisited : Breaking the Cubic Noise Barrier

    Kang Hoon Lee, Ji Won Yoon
    Korea University
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  6. It’s TEEtime: Secure Interrupt Isolation for Normal-world Enclaves on Arm

    Friederike Groschupp, Mark Kuhne, Moritz Schneider, Ivan Puddu, Shweta Shinde, Srdjan Čapkun
    ETH Zurich
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  7. SPHGen: A Program Generator for Fast Polynomial Hash Functions

    Tommaso Pegolotti, Jan Gilcher, Kenneth Paterson, Markus Püschel
    ETH Zurich
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  8. WW-FL: Secure and Private Large-Scale Federated Learning

    Felix Marx, Thomas Schneider, Ajith Suresh, Tobias Wehrle, Christian Weinert, Hossein Yalame
    TU Darmstadt; Technology Innovation Institute; Royal Holloway, University of London
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  9. Fault Attacks on VOLEitH Signature Schemes

    Sönke Jendral, Elena Dubrova
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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  10. NeonCROSS: Vectorized Implementation of Post-Quantum Signature CROSS on Cortex-A72 and Apple M3

    Hanyu Wei, Wenqian Li, Yunlei Zhao
    Fudan University
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  11. Coil-Based Detection and Concurrent Error Correction Against EMFI

    Felix Uhle, Nicolai Müller, Thorben Moos, Philipp Günther, Amir Moradi
    Ruhr University Bochum; UCLouvain; Langer EMV-Technik GmbH; TU Darmstadt
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  12. Vectorized Falcon-Sign Implementations using SSE2, AVX2, AVX-512F, NEON, and RVV

    Jipeng Zhang, Jiaheng Zhang
    National University of Singapore
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  13. YATA: Yet Another TFHE Accelerator with Key Compression and Radix-8 NTT

    Kotaro Matsuoka, Takashi Sato
    Kyoto University
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  14. Sota Voce: Low-Noise Sampling of Sparse Fixed-Weight Vectors

    Décio Luiz Gazzoni Filho, Gora Adj, Slim Bettaieb, Alessandro Budroni, Jorge Chavez-Saab, Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez
    Universidade Estadual de Campinas; State University of Londrina; Technology Innovation Institute
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  15. Active Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis: Crossing Physical Security Boundaries through Impedance Variations

    Taiki Kitazawa, Lennert Wouters, Benedikt Gierlichs, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Daisuke Fujimoto, Yuichi Hayashi
    Nara Institute of Science and Technology; KU Leuven
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  16. Improving the Selection Rule of Correlation Attacks for Remote Power Analysis

    Oriol Farràs, Vincent Grosso, Miquel Guiot, Carlos Andres Lara-Nino
    Universitat Rovira i Virgili; CNRS
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  17. Finding Bugs and Features Using Cryptographically-Informed Functional Testing

    Giacomo Fenzi, Jan Gilcher, Fernando Virdia
    EPFL; ETH Zurich; University of Surrey
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  18. PWNN: Power-Wasting Neural Network As Remote Fault Injector

    Huashuangyang Xu, Sergej Meschkov, Vincent Meyers, Mehdi Tahoori
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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  19. Keep it Simple: Refreshing the NTT of Kyber’s Decapsulation to Prevent Plaintext-Checking Side-Channel Attacks

    Duyen Pay, François-Xavier Standaert
    UCLouvain
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  20. FAST: Fast and Accurate Security Testing of HRP UWB Chips

    Graciana Aad, Giovanni Camurati, Matteo Dell'Amico, Srdjan Čapkun
    ETH Zurich; University of Genoa
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  21. High Fidelity Security Mesh Monitoring using Low-Cost, Embedded Time Domain Reflectometry

    Jan Sebastian Götte, Björn Scheuermann
    TU Darmstadt
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  22. Evaluating Larger Lookup Tables using CKKS

    Jules Dumezy, Andreea Alexandru, Yuriy Polyakov, Pierre-Emmanuel Clet, Olive Chakraborty, Aymen Boudguiga
    Université Paris-Saclay; Duality Technologies
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  23. M3-Mix: A Multi-Coin, Memory-Light, Mixer Architecture for Privacy-Preserving Embedded Devices

    Zonglun Li, Shuhao Zheng, Junliang Luo, Ziyue Xin, Xue Liu
    McGill University
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  24. ML-DSA masking sweetened with SUCRE: Shuffle-and-Unmask Countermeasure for REjection sampling

    Sonia Belaïd, Ryad Benadjila, Julien Devevey, Morgane Guerreau, Thomas Legavre, Ange Martinelli, Thomas Ricosset, Matthieu Rivain, Mélissa Rossi
    CryptoExperts; ANSSI; PQShield; Sorbonne Université; Thales
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  25. Combined Stability: Protecting against Combined Attacks

    Dilara Toprakhisar, Svetla Nikova, Ventzislav Nikov
    KU Leuven; NXP Semiconductors
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  26. UP TO 50% OFF: Efficient Implementation of Polynomial Masking

    Jorge Andresen, Paula Arnold, Sebastian Berndt, Thomas Eisenbarth, Sebastian Faust, Marc Gourjon, Eric Landthaler, Elena Micheli, Maximilian Orlt, Pajam Pauls, Kathrin Wirschem, Liang Zhao
    University of Lübeck; Technische Hochschule Lübeck; TU Darmstadt; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
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  27. Testing Security Equivalence in the Random Probing Model

    Anna Guinet, Carina Graw, Lukas Koletzko, Jan Richter-Brockmann, Holger Dette, Tim Güneysu
    Ruhr University Bochum
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TCHES 2026, Issue 2

  1. t-Probing (In-)Security - Pitfalls on Noise Assumptions

    Dina Hesse, Georg Land, Jakob Feldtkeller, Markus Krausz, Julius Hermelink, Jan Richter-Brockmann, Tim Güneysu
    Ruhr University Bochum; Intel; PQShield; TÜV Informationstechnik GmbH; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
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  2. Racing against the clock: side-channel leakage from crossing asynchronous clock domains

    Martin Thompson, David Oswald
    Durham University
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  3. Masked Solving of Linear Equations System and Application to UOV Signatures

    Jean-Sébastien Coron, François Gérard, Bowen Zhang
    University of Luxembourg; UCLouvain
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  4. Loricae: Upgrading and Optimizing Multi-Party Computation Protocols with Filmy Hardware Enclaves

    Xiang Li, Baiting Jiang, Xiaoyu Fan, Weijie Liu, Yifan Song, Mingyu Gao
    Tsinghua University; Nankai University; Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
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  5. ARMOR: First Order Masking of Activation and ArgMax Gadgets for Side Channel Resistant Neural Networks

    Won Geun Shin, HeeSeok Kim, JeongHwan Lee, Sangyun Jung
    Korea University
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  6. aLEAKator: HDL Mixed-Domain Simulation for Masked Hardware & Software Formal Verification

    Noé Amiot, Quentin Meunier, Karine Heydemann, Emmanuelle Encrenaz
    Sorbonne Université; Thales
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  7. High-Performance SIMD Software for Spielman Codes in Zero-Knowledge Proofs

    Florian Krieger, Christian Dobrouschek, Florian Hirner, Sujoy Sinha Roy
    Graz University of Technology
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  8. Correction Fault Attack on CROSS under Unknown Bit Flips

    Sönke Jendral, Elena Dubrova, Qian Guo, Thomas Johansson
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology; Lund University
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  9. Memory Optimizations of Wagner's Algorithm with Applications to Equihash

    Lili Tang, Rui Ding, Yao Sun, Xiaorui Gong
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  10. TSM+ and OTSM - Correct Application of Time Sharing Masking in Round-Based Designs

    Hemin Rahimi, Amir Moradi
    Independent Researcher; TU Darmstadt
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  11. A Framework for Designing High-Order Side-Channel Protected Hardware Implementations of ML-KEM

    Eros Camacho-Ruiz, Pablo Navarro-Torrero, Alejandro Cabrera Aldaya
    Instituto de Microelectrónica de Sevilla; Tampere University
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  12. Multivariate Leakage Detection

    Aakash Chowdhury, Elisabeth Oswald
    University of Klagenfurt; University of Birmingham
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  13. AVX2 Implementation of QR-UOV for Modern x86 Processors

    Hiroshi Amagasa, Rei Ueno, Naofumi Homma
    Tohoku University; Kyoto University
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  14. TWFalcon: Triple-Word Arithmetic for Falcon - Giving Falcon the Precision to Fly Securely

    Stef Halmans, Christine van Vredendaal, Tobias Schneider, Frank Custers, Tim Güneysu
    Ruhr University Bochum; NXP Semiconductors
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  15. Lightweight PQ KEM and Hybrid MQTT Protocol for 8-bit AVR Sensor Nodes

    Yifan Dong, YoungBeom Kim, Jieyu Zheng, Zhichuang Liang, Boyue Fang, Seog Chung Seo, Máire O'Neill, Yunlei Zhao
    Fudan University; Kookmin University; Queens University Belfast
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  16. Optimized Implementations of Keccak, Kyber, and Dilithium on the MSP430 Microcontroller

    DongHyun Shin, YoungBeom Kim, Ayesha Khalid, Máire O'Neill, Seog Chung Seo
    Kookmin University; Queens University Belfast
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  17. AIPS: AI-Based Power Simulation for Pre-Silicon Side-Channel Security Evaluation

    Ya Gao, Haocheng Ma, Tanchen Zhang, Jiaji He, Yiqiang Zhao, Mirjana Stojilovic, Yier Jin
    Tianjin University; Hong Kong Polytechnic University; EPFL; University of Science and Technology of China
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  18. Non-supervised SASCA on the VOLEitH Framework

    Julie Godard, Nicolas Aragon, Philippe Gaborit, Antoine Loiseau, Julien Maillard
    Université Grenoble Alpes; University of Limoges
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  19. Improving ML-KEM and ML-DSA on OpenTitan - Efficient Multiplication Vector Instructions for OTBN

    Ruben Niederhagen, Hoang Nguyen Hien Pham
    Academia Sinica; University of Southern Denmark; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Université Grenoble Alpes
    TCHES PDF

  20. Accelerating HQC with Additive FFT

    Ming-Shing Chen, Chun-Ming Chiu, Chun-Tao Peng, Bo-Yin Yang
    Academia Sinica
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  21. Combined Indistinguishability Analysis - Verifying random probing leakage under random faults

    Armand Schinkel, Pascal Sasdrich
    Ruhr University Bochum
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  22. BTCCA: Unsupervised Horizontal Attack against RSA Primitive with Barlow Twins Collision Correlation Analysis

    Dorian Llavata, Eleonora Cagli, Rémi Eyraud, Vincent Grosso, Lilian Bossuet
    Université Grenoble Alpes; Université Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne; CNRS; CEA-Leti
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  23. A Tool for Lightweight (AND, XOR) Implementations of Large-Degree S-boxes

    Sébastien Duval, Marie Bolzer, Marine Minier
    Université de Lorraine; CNRS; Inria
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  24. Lightening CROSS: Memory Optimized Implementations of CROSS

    Harry Hart, Puja Mondal, Suparna Kundu, Supriya Adhikary, Angshuman Karmakar, Chaoyun Li
    University of Surrey; Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; KU Leuven
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  25. DS-NSCA: Differentiable Search for Non-Profiling Side-channel Analysis

    Di Li, Zheng Gong, Yufeng Tang, Chun Li
    South China Normal University; Tsinghua University
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  26. When Masking Multiplication Isn't Enough: Exploiting Floating-Point Leakage in Falcon's Pre-Image Computation

    Keng-Yu Chen, Ming Qing Ching, Jiun-Peng Chen, Bo-Yin Yang
    EPFL; National Taiwan University; Academia Sinica
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  27. NTT-PEEL: Bit Shift Side-Channel in FALCON's Number Theoretic Transform

    Jinyi Qiu, Aydin Aysu
    North Carolina State University
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  28. On the Security of Lightweight Homomorphic Obfuscation for Protecting Against Hardware Trojans

    Tanvir Hossain, Matthew Showers, Mahmudul Hasan, Tamzidul Hoque
    University of Kansas
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  29. Uncertainty Estimation in Neural Network-enabled Side-channel Analysis and Links to Explainability

    Seyedmohammad Nouraniboosjin, Fatemeh (Saba) Ganji
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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  30. DRR-NTT: Efficient NTT Accelerator in Lattice-Based Cryptography By Dimensionality Reduction in RRAM

    Yijun Cui, Yang Chen, Bei Wang, Ziying Ni, Lixia Han, Fei Lyu, Chenghua Wang, Weiqiang Liu
    Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Queens University Belfast
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  31. Compact and Low Latency First-Order AES Implementations with Low Randomness

    Feng Zhou, Hua Chen, Limin Fan, Junhuai Yang
    University of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Zhongguancun Laboratory
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  32. Efficient High-Order Masking of FrodoKEM's CDT-Based Gaussian Sampler

    Elie Eid, Aurélien Greuet, Nathan Reboud, Rina Zeitoun
    IDEMIA Secure Transactions
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  33. Uniform Sharing in Multiple Stages: NullFresh for Arbitrary Functions

    Artemii Ovchinnikov, Aein Rezaei Shahmirzadi, Siemen Dhooghe
    KU Leuven; PQShield
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  34. DPA-Style Attacks on HQC

    Zhuo Huang, Weijia Wang, Xiaogang Zhou, Yu Yu
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shandong University; China Telecom Quantum Information Technology Group Co., Ltd; Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute
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  35. Secret Key Recovery of FALCON using Simple Power Analysis in Conditional Calculator

    GyuSang Kim, JeongHwan Lee, Myeonghoon Lee, Seokhie Hong, HeeSeok Kim
    Korea University
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TCHES 2026, Issue 3

  1. Fault Attack Countermeasures for SPHINCS+: WOTS+ with Checksum Segmentation and Subtree Root Children Caching

    Yan Li, Tianlong Yan, Yiming Xue, Gechen Liu, Shuang Yao, Ningning He, Hao Wen
    China Agricultural University; CEC Huada Electronic Design Co., Ltd.
    TCHES PDF

  2. Better Usability: Leakage-Resistant AEADs from Single-length key Blockciphers

    Chun Guo, Mustafa Khairallah, Kazuhiko Minematsu
    Shandong University; Nanyang Technological University; NEC
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  3. Faultless Key Recovery: Iteration-Skip and Loop-Abort Fault Attacks on LESS

    Xiao Huang, Zhuo Huang, Yituo He, Quan Yuan, Chao Sun, Mehdi Tibouchi, Yu Yu
    Southeast University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Shandong University; NTT Social Informatics Laboratories
    TCHES PDF

  4. High-Performance FPGA Accelerator for the Post-quantum Signature Scheme CROSS

    Patrick Karl, Francesco Antognazza, Alessandro Barenghi, Gerardo Pelosi, Georg Sigl
    Technical University of Munich; Politecnico di Milano; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security
    TCHES PDF

  5. SAMSEM – A Generic and Scalable Approach for IC Metal Line Segmentation

    Christian Gehrmann, Jonas Ricker, Simon Damm, Deruo Cheng, Julian Speith, Yiqiong Shi, Asja Fischer, Christof Paar
    Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Ruhr University Bochum; Nanyang Technological University
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  6. A New Optimized Implementation Method for Boolean Functions Towards Low-Latency – Application to S-Boxes

    Chenhao Jia, Tingting Cui, Yanhong Fan, Puwen Wei, Meiqin Wang
    Shandong University; Hangzhou Dianzi University
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  7. A High-Performance and Reconfigurable Hardware Architecture for FrodoKEM

    Fu Yao, Guang Zeng, Jiachen Wang, Jiahao Lu
    Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.; Huazhong University of Science and Technology
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  8. BOLT-FHE: An Efficient Unified Framework for GPU-based TFHE Bootstrapping via On-Chip Local Tiling Strategies

    Yanren Chen, Fangyu Zheng, Guang Fan, Jiankuo Dong, Wenxu Tang, Tian Zhou, Jingqiang Lin, Jiwu Jing
    University of Science and Technology of China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  9. Optimizing the Post Quantum Signature Scheme CROSS for Resource Constrained Devices

    Jonas Schupp, Marco Gianvecchio, Alessandro Barenghi, Patrick Karl, Gerardo Pelosi, Georg Sigl
    Technical University of Munich; Politecnico di Milano; Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security
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  10. Decomposition of Large Look-Up Tables for Fast Homomorphic Evaluation

    Sonia Belaïd, Nicolas Bon, Matthieu Rivain
    CryptoExperts
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  11. Breaking the Myth of MPCitH Inefficiency: Optimizing MQOM for Embedded Platforms

    Ryad Benadjila, Thibauld Feneuil
    CryptoExperts
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  12. Verified non-recursive calculation of Beneš networks applied to Classic McEliece

    Wrenna Robson, Samuel Kelly
    University of Bristol
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  13. ABRA-CAPA-DABRA: Full break of CAPA

    Paco Azevedo-Oliveira
    Thales; UVSQ
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  14. SoK: Review of IC Logical Reverse Engineering Techniques

    Kevin Xu, Lucas D. Franck, Samuel Pagliarini
    Carnegie Mellon University
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  15. Additive FFTs for HQC on ARM Cortex-M4, Revisited

    Ming-Shing Chen, Tun-You Chien, Chun-Ming Chiu, Han-Hsuan Lin, Chun-Tao Peng, Bo-Yin Yang
    Academia Sinica; National Tsing Hua University
    TCHES PDF

  16. DSPFA: Generalized Persistent Fault Analysis based on Distributional Similarity

    Zhang Jiayu, Shihui Zheng, Xinming Zhu, Yingyan Chen, Changhai Ou
    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications; Wuhan University
    TCHES PDF

  17. LFSRs and Boolean Masking: An In-depth Security Analysis

    Anna Guinet, Jan Schoone, Niklas Höher, Dina Hesse, Tim Güneysu
    Ruhr-University Bochum; Radboud University
    TCHES PDF

  18. MIFA: An MILP-based Framework for Improving Differential Fault Attacks

    Hanbeom Shin, Insung Kim, Sunyeop Kim, Byoungjin Seok, Deukjo Hong, Jaechul Sung, Seokhie Hong, Sangjin Lee, Dongjae Lee
    Korea University; Nanyang Technological University; Hansung University; Jeonbuk National University; University of Seoul; Kangwon National University
    TCHES PDF

  19. Optimizing and Implementing Threshold MAYO

    Sofia Celi, Giacomo Borin, Guilhem Niot, Diego F. Aranha
    Brave; University of Bristol; IBM Research; University of Zurich; PQShield; University of Rennes; CNRS; IRISA; Aarhus University
    TCHES PDF

  20. Accelerating Baby-step Giant-step Algorithm for Solving ECDLP Using Elliptic Divisibility Sequences

    Ziwen Liao, Fangguo Zhang
    Sun Yat-Sen University
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  21. Efficient and Parallel Implementation of Isogeny-based Deterministic Group Actions

    Weize Wang, Yi-Fu Lai, Kaizhan Lin, Yunlei Zhao
    Fudan University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  22. Efficient SIMD Implementation of the BLS Signature Scheme Using Intel AVX-512

    Ganqin Liu, Hao Cheng, Georgios Fotiadis, Jipeng Zhang, Johann Großschädl
    Shandong University; Ubitech Ltd.; National University of Singapore; University of Luxembourg
    TCHES PDF

  23. Leakback CRC: Optical Plaintext Recovery of Encrypted Bitstreams on AMD 7-Series FPGAs

    Antonio Saavedra, Lars Renkes, Felix Hahn, Maik Ender, Christof Paar, Jean-Pierre Seifert
    Technische Universität Berlin; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
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  24. Hardware Private Cubic Circuits

    Frederik Reiter, Amir Moradi
    Technical University of Darmstadt
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  25. A Divide-and-Conquer Strategy for Hard-Label Extraction of Deep Neural Networks via Side-Channel Attacks

    Benoit Coqueret, Mathieu Carbone, Olivier Sentieys, Gabriel Zaid
    CESTI Thales; INRIA; IRISA; Université de Rennes; CryptoExperts
    TCHES PDF

  26. Compressed Key Exchange Protocol from Orientations of Large Discriminant Using AVX-512

    Yuhao Zheng, Jianming Lin, Yutong Liang, Yanzhen Ren, Huixin Zhang, Chang-An Zhao
    Sun Yat-Sen University
    TCHES PDF

  27. HawkPU: An Efficient and Low-Latency Hardware Architecture for HAWK Signature Generation and Verification

    Rui Wang, Yihong Zhu, Wenping Zhu, Yi Ouyang, Bohan Yang, Hanning Wang, Min Zhu, Chen Chen, Aoyang Zhang, Leibo Liu
    Tsinghua University; Wuxi Micro Innovation Integrated Circuit Design Company Ltd.
    TCHES PDF

  28. Tempo: An ML-KEM to PAKE Compiler Resilient to Timing Attacks

    Afonso Arriaga, Manuel Barbosa, Stanislaw Jarecki
    University of Luxembourg; Universidade do Porto; INESC TEC; University of California at Irvine
    TCHES PDF

  29. MAGNET: MAsked Gaussian Now Efficient and Table-less

    Mert Yassi, Soundes Marzougui, Raymond K. Zhao, Muhammed F. Esgin, Amin Sakzad, Ron Steinfeld
    Monash University; Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron; ExeQuantum
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  30. Bad Benchmarks and a Fourier-Analytic Framework for Characterizing the (Un)Hideability of Combinational-Logic Circuits

    Animesh Chhotaray, Kollin Labowski, Thomas Shrimpton
    Georgia Institute of Technology; University of Florida; Galois, Inc.
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  31. SPLASH: SPeculative Leakage-Adaptive Secure Hardware

    Huimin Li, Mohamadreza Rostami, Pallavi Borkar, Lichao Wu, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
    Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology; Technical University of Darmstadt; Indian Institute of Technology Madras; University of Bristol
    TCHES PDF

  32. SpectroLoc: Cryptographic Operation Localization via Spectrogram Projection and Time-Series Analysis

    Yubo Zhao, Shipei Qu, Yuxuan Wang, Jintong Yu, Juncheng Ji, Zhiliang An, Chi Zhang, Zhedong Wang, Dawu Gu
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    TCHES PDF

  33. Accelerating FrodoKEM in Hardware

    Sanjay Deshpande, Patrick Longa, Jakub Szefer
    Northwestern University; Microsoft Research
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  34. Neur-SASCA: High-Noise-Tolerant and Automated Single-Trace Attack against NTT

    Yuxuan Wang, Jintong Yu, Yihan Nie, Yubo Zhao, Xiaolin Zhang, Yipeng Shi, Chi Zhang, Zhedong Wang, Dawu Gu
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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  35. GPU-Accelerated DPF-Based Private Information Retrieval for Large-Scale Database

    Qingquan Tan, Chenkai Zeng, Qi Feng, Cong Peng, Weijia Wang, Debiao He
    Wuhan University; Shandong University
    TCHES PDF

  36. Completing the Chain: Verified Implementations of Hash-Based Signatures and Their Security

    Manuel Barbosa, François Dupressoir, Rui Fernandes, Andreas Hülsing, Matthias Meijers, Pierre-Yves Strub
    Universidade do Porto; INESC TEC; University of Bristol; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy; Eindhoven University of Technology; SandboxAQ; PQShield
    TCHES PDF

  37. MPSpeed: Implementing and Optimizing MPC-in-the-Head Digital Signatures in Hardware – Accelerating Mirath on FPGA

    Stelios Manasidis, Quinten Norga, Suparna Kundu, Ingrid Verbauwhede
    KU Leuven
    TCHES PDF

  38. FrozenTRU: Cold Boot Attacks on NTRU-Based Hash-and-Sign Signatures

    Hiroto Kaihara, Mehdi Tibouchi, Masayuki Abe
    Kyoto University; NTT Social Informatics Laboratories
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  39. Structured Module Lattice-based Cryptography: Fine-Grained Parameter Selection without Compromising Performance

    Joppe W. Bos, Joost Renes, Frederik Vercauteren, Peng Wang
    NXP Semiconductors; KU Leuven; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
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  40. Hardness of Learning with Physical Rounding and Noise from Learning With Errors

    Clément Hoffmann, Emeline Repel, Adeline Roux-Langlois, François-Xavier Standaert
    NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; Université Caen Normandie; ENSICAEN; CNRS; Normandie Univsity; UCLouvain
    TCHES PDF

  41. Bridging Side-channel Evaluation Gap: From Interpretable Leakage Models to Concrete Evidence-based Attacks

    Jiangshan Wang, Changhai Ou, Kun Yang, Kexin Qiao, Fan Zhang, Wei Cheng, Debiao He
    Wuhan University; Shandong University; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Beijing Institute of Technology; Zhejiang University; Nanjing University of Science and Technology; Institut Polytechnique de Paris; Wuhan University
    TCHES PDF

  42. HyperSCA: A Comprehensive Hyperparameter Optimization Framework for Deep Learning-based Side Channel Attacks

    Yuan Li, Danqing Li, Xiaomei Tang, Bin Zhang, Changhai Ou, Pengcheng Ma, Guangfu Sun
    National University of Defense Technology, China; Wuhan University
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  43. Faster Homomorphic Integer Computer

    Jaehyung Kim
    Stanford University
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  44. Bitsliced Segment-Based Search Technique for Low-Depth and Hardware-Efficient S-Box Circuits

    Giyoon Kim, Seungjun Baek, Yongjin Jeon, Vedad Hadzic, Jongsung Kim
    Pukyong National University; Kookmin University; KU Leuven; Intel Corporation
    TCHES PDF

  45. CoMEMS: Coping with Micro-Architectural Effects on Masked Software

    Jannik Zeitschner, Amir Moradi
    Ruhr-University Bochum; Technical University of Darmstadt
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  46. Soft Analytical Side-Channel Attacks on SHA-2 and HMAC

    Antoine Moran, Maxime Lecomte, Julien Maillard, Benjamin Smith, Guénaël Renault
    University Grenoble Alpes; CEA-Leti; LIX, INRIA, CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Paris; ANSSI
    TCHES PDF

  47. PHOENIX: Crypto-Agile Hardware Sharing for ML-KEM and HQC

    Antonio Ras, Antoine Loiseau, Mikael Carmona, Simon Pontie, Guénaël Renault, Benjamin Smith, Emanuele Valea
    CEA-Leti; ANSSI; LIX, INRIA, CNRS, Institut Polytechnique de Paris; CEA-List
    TCHES PDF

  48. Hotspot-induced Malicious in-System Aging on FPGAs

    Bardia Babaei, Joseph Powell, Dirk Koch
    Surrey Space Centre; University of Manchester; Heidelberg University
    TCHES PDF

  49. An Efficient Variant of F4 Algorithm for Solving MQ Problem

    Kosuke Sakata, Tsuyoshi Takagi
    University of Tokyo
    TCHES PDF

  50. Formal Verification, Integration and Physical Evaluation of Prime-Field Masking on Silicon

    Gaëtan Cassiers, Thorben Moos, Amir Moradi, Nicolai Müller, François-Xavier Standaert
    Cryptoexperts; UCLouvain; Technical University of Darmstadt
    TCHES PDF

TCHES 2026, Issue 4

  1. S5: Combining white-box countermeasures to resist state-of-the-art attacks

    Alex Charlès, Aleksei Udovenko
    University of Luxembourg
    TCHES PDF

  2. Turtle Walk: Stopping Timing Attack on NoC

    Dipesh, Amit Kumar Singh, Urbi Chatterjee
    IIT Kanpur; University of Essex
    TCHES PDF

  3. RainHash2.0: Hardware- and Arithmetization-friendly Hash Function

    Katharina Koschatko, Lorenzo Grassi, Florian Krieger, Shibam Mukherjee, Christian Rechberger, Sujoy Sinha Roy, Verena Schröppel, Markus Schofnegger, Jiamin Cui
    Graz University of Technology; Eindhoven University of Technology; [[alloc] init]; Shandong University
    TCHES PDF

  4. SoK: From Silicon to Netlist and Beyond – Two Decades of Hardware Reverse Engineering Research

    Zehra Karadağ, Simon Klix, René Walendy, Felix Hahn, Kolja Dorschel, Julian Speith, Christof Paar, Steffen Becker
    Ruhr University Bochum; Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy
    TCHES PDF

  5. SAFEDT: A Privacy-Preserving Decision Tree Inference Framework Using Homomorphic Encryption

    Shiwen Wei, Zhili Chen, Yanzhuo Yu, Xin Chen
    East China Normal University
    TCHES PDF

  6. Bit2Watt: A Cyber–Physical Vulnerability Exploiting GPU Workloads Across Power and Computing Infrastructures

    Zhouhao Ji, Kaikai Pan, Wenyuan Xu
    Zhejiang University
    TCHES PDF

  7. Area Efficiency in Constant-Cycle Schemes - CCHPC1.1 and Architectural Overhead Reduction Applied to AES

    Daniel Lammers, Lukas Weber, Amir Moradi
    Ruhr University Bochum; TU Darmstadt
    TCHES PDF

  8. Breaking the Area Limit of Composable Gadgets - High-Order Hardware Masking Circuits with O(d) Area Overhead

    Chaoran Wang, Meiqin Wang, Lixuan Wu, Guowei Liu, Yanhong Fan
    Shandong University
    TCHES PDF

  9. Multiplicative Integer Division over Integer-wise TFHE

    Kotaro Matsuoka, Yusuke Hoshizuki, Takashi Sato
    Kyoto University; Axell Corporation
    TCHES PDF

  10. Low-Stack HAETAE for Memory-Constrained Microcontrollers

    YoungBeom Kim, Christine van Vredendaal, Gustavo Banegas, Seog Chung Seo
    Kookmin University; NXP Semiconductors; INRIA
    TCHES PDF

  11. Power Analysis and Countermeasures on the MiMC Block Cipher

    Stefano Trevisani, Rishub Nagpal, Elena Andreeva, Stefan Mangard, Arnab Roy
    TU Wien; Graz University of Technology; University of Innsbruck
    TCHES PDF

  12. Trustless Delegation of Vector Commitment Construction in Resource-Constrained Settings

    Parisa Hassanizadeh, Shahriar Ebrahimi, Stefan Dziembowski, Janusz Szczepanski
    IPPT PAN; The Alan Turing Institute; Zero Savvy; University of Warsaw
    TCHES PDF

  13. Efficient and Compact High-order Masking Raccoon on Memory Constrained Devices

    Junhao Huang, Yiteng Sun, Jipeng Zhang, Weijia Wang, Donglong Chen, Haiyang Xue, Guomin Yang
    Singapore Management University; Shandong University; National University of Singapore; Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
    TCHES PDF

  14. Refined Approx-SVP Rank Reduction Conditions and Adaptive Lattice Reduction for MSIS Security Estimation

    Xiaohan Zhang, Zijian Zhou, Longjiang Qu
    National University of Defense Technology
    TCHES PDF

  15. Coupling Leakage in Theory and Practice - Unveiling (Post-PnR) Security Flaws in Masked FPGA-Mapped Designs

    Nicolai Müller, Daniel Lammers, Simon Osterheider, Amir Moradi
    TU Darmstadt; Ruhr University Bochum
    TCHES PDF

  16. Pipelining FALCON’s Gaussian sampler: Towards practical FALCON acceleration

    Michal Vojáček, Martin Novotný
    CTU in Prague
    TCHES PDF

  17. SQISign on ARM

    Luca De Feo, Li-Jie Jian, Ting-Yuan Wang, Bo-Yin Yang
    IBM Research Europe; Academia Sinica; University of Southern California
    TCHES PDF

  18. High-Throughput GPU Design and Implementation of MAYO with Matrix Computation Reordering

    Haoyang Chen, Junhao Huang, Shutong Jin, Ray C. C. Cheung, Donglong Chen, Wangchen Dai
    Sun Yat-sen University; Singapore Management University; City University of Hong Kong; Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
    TCHES PDF

  19. Low-Latency Low-Randomness First-Order OPINI Gadgets and Their Formal Verification

    Lixuan Wu, Yanhong Fan, Guowei Liu, Chaoran Wang, Meiqin Wang
    Shandong University
    TCHES PDF

  20. Slicing Bits and Cutting Costs in CDT Sampling: High-Order Masking of FrodoKEM's Gaussian Sampler, Revisited

    Calvin Abou Haidar, Thomas Espitau, Clément Hoffmann, Mehdi Tibouchi
    NTT Social Informatics Laboratories; PQShield
    TCHES PDF

  21. Adapting AES-Oriented Optimizations to Rijndael-256: Cortex-M4, ARMv8-A, and CUDA

    Siwoo Eum, Minho Song, Minjoo Sim, Anupam Chattopadhyay, Hwajeong Seo
    Hansung University; Nanyang Technological University
    TCHES PDF

  22. TETRIS: Automated Design Space Exploration of Randomness–Latency Trade-offs in Masked Hardware

    Nilotpola Sarma, Tapish Patidar, Nupur Brahamanya, Chandan Karfa
    IIT Guwahati
    TCHES PDF

  23. TAME: A Deep Learning-based Blind Side-Channel Analysis Framework

    Jintong Yu, Yuxuan Wang, Pei Cao, Zixin He, Yubo Zhao, Zhiliang An, Yipeng Shi, Chi Zhang, Dawu Gu
    Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    TCHES PDF

  24. The σ0 Side Channel: Single-Trace State Recovery from NIST SP 800-90A Hash-DRBG

    Xhani Marvin Saß, Jean-Pierre Seifert
    TU Berlin
    TCHES PDF

  25. Hybrid Parallel SHA-3 and its Applications to Fiat-Shamir with Aborts Signatures

    Runqing Xu, Debiao He, Cong Peng, Min Luo
    Wuhan University
    TCHES PDF

  26. TP-NTT: Batch NTT Hardware with Application to Relinearization

    Emre Koçer, Tolun Tosun, Beren Aydoğan, Erkay Savaş, Furkan Turan, Ingrid Verbauwhede
    Sabancı University; KU Leuven
    TCHES PDF

  27. CAPSS: A Framework for SNARK-Friendly Post-Quantum Signatures

    Thibauld Feneuil, Matthieu Rivain
    CryptoExperts
    TCHES PDF

  28. How Strong is the FO-Calypse, Really? Instantiating Plaintext-Checking Oracles against Masked Software Implementations of ML-KEM

    Brieuc Balon, Gaëtan Cassiers, Thibaud Schoenauen, François-Xavier Standaert
    UCLouvain; CryptoExperts
    TCHES PDF

  29. An Efficient End-to-end Algorithm for Optimizing the S-Box Circuit

    Yao Sun, Min Zhang, Ting Li
    Chinese Academy of Sciences
    TCHES PDF

  30. Faulting an 8 nm FinFET technology SoC using Photon Emission Microscopy-assisted LFI

    Thomas Ravelet, Jean-Max Dutertre, Raphael Viera, Rodrigo Silva Lima, Nicolas Falletto, Florian Le Mounier
    ALPhANOV; EMSE
    TCHES PDF

  31. Key-Recovery Side-Channel Attack on the Berlekamp-Massey Decoding Algorithm in the Classic McEliece KEM

    Andrei Alexei, Marios Omar Choudary, Vlad-Florin Drăgoi
    University Politehnica of Bucharest; Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad
    TCHES PDF

  32. GlitchSnipe: Toward Localized Voltage Fault Attacks

    Fatemeh Khojasteh Dana, Saleh Khalaj Monfared, Hamed Okhravi, Shahin Tajik
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute; MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    TCHES PDF

  33. From Multiplication to Recovery: A Single-trace Side-Channel Attack on HQC

    Yikang Guo, Yuchang Hu, Yanbin Li, Shilin Sun, Geng Chen, Chunpeng Ge, Jiankuo Dong
    Shandong University; University of Science and Technology of China
    TCHES PDF

  34. The SMAesH dataset - Leakage of a Masked Hardware AES with Information-theoretic Security Bounds

    Gaëtan Cassiers, Charles Momin
    CryptoExperts; Belgian National Security Authority; UCLouvain
    TCHES PDF

  35. SHARMONY: Composing SHA-2 and SHA-3 Hardware for Crypto-Agile PQC

    Liga Anwar, Carlos Andres Lara-Nino, Jong-Yeon Park, Michael Hutter
    Universität der Bundeswehr München
    TCHES PDF

  36. A Unified RISC-V Vector Framework for Large-Scale NTT in FHE and ZKP

    Yilin Dong, Zhansheng Ye, Zhengyi Zhao, Shiqing Li, Zhuoran Ji, Weijia Wang, Lei Ju
    Shandong University; Quan Cheng Laboratory
    TCHES PDF

  37. Efficient Polynomial Multiplication for HQC on ARM Cortex-M4

    Jihoon Jang, Myeonghoon Lee, Donggeun Kwon, Seokhie Hong, Suhri Kim, Sangjin Lee
    Korea University; Samsung Electronics System LSI Business; Kunsan National University; SmartM2M; Sungshin Women’s University
    TCHES PDF