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Publications

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News

• Our two papers have been accepted by ISIT 2021 (IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory):
  • Cumulant Expansion of Mutual Information for Quantifying Leakage of a Protected Secret
  • Bent Sequences over Hadamard Codes for Physically Unclonable Functions

• Our paper Categorizing All Linear Codes of IPM over GF(2^8) has been accepted by the journal Cryptography and Communications Discrete Structures, Boolean Functions and Sequences (CCDS).

• Our paper Information Leakages in Code-based Masking: A Unified Quantification Approach has been accepted by TCHES 2021, issue 3.
  We propose a new unified leakage quantitation approach for Generalized code-based masking. All results are publically available on Github. In particular, we present the optimal linear codes for SSS (Shamir’s Secret Sharing scheme)-based polynomial masking in four scenarios:
  • $(3,1)$-SSS based masking over $\mathbb{F}_{2^4}$
  • $(3,1)$-SSS based masking over $\mathbb{F}_{2^8}$
  • $(5,2)$-SSS based masking over $\mathbb{F}_{2^4}$
  • $(5,2)$-SSS based masking over $\mathbb{F}_{2^8}$

• Our paper Making Obfuscated PUFs Secure Against Power Side-Channel Based Modeling Attacks has been accepted by DATE 2021, which will be held on February 01 – 05, 2021, Virtual Conference & Exhibition.
  This paper was one of Best Paper Award Nominations in T-Track.

• Our paper Optimizing Inner Product Masking Scheme by A Coding Theory Approach has been selected to the finalist of CSAW Applied Research Competition, Europe region. See here for full list of finalist.

• Our paper Optimizing Inner Product Masking Scheme by A Coding Theory Approach has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS).
  Main results on selecting optimal linear codes for IPM are publicly available on Github. Specifically, four takeaway results can be found directly:
  • IPM with $n$=2 shares over $\mathbb{F}_{2^4}$
  • IPM with $n$=2 shares over $\mathbb{F}_{2^8}$
  • IPM with $n$=3 shares over $\mathbb{F}_{2^4}$
  • IPM with $n$=3 shares over $\mathbb{F}_{2^8}$

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2021

1. Trevor Kroeger, Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley, Jean Luc Danger and Naghmeh Karimi. Making Obfuscated PUFs Secure Against Power Side-Channel Based Modeling Attacks. DATE 2021. To appear. [Online link]

2. Olivier Rioul, Wei Cheng and Sylvain Guilley. Cumulant Expansion of Mutual Information for Quantifying Leakage of a Protected Secret. ISIT 2021. To appear. [Online link, ArXiv]

3. Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley, Claude Carlet, Jean-Luc Danger and Sihem Mesnager. Information Leakages in Code-based Masking: A Unified Quantification Approach. IACR Trans. Cryptogr. Hardw. Embed. Syst. 2021(3): XXX–XXX (2021). To appear. [Online link, ePrint]

4. Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley and Jean-Luc Danger. Categorizing All Linear Codes of IPM over GF(2^8). Cryptogr. Commun. (2021). [Online link]

5. Patrick Solé, Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley, Olivier Rioul. Bent Sequences over Hadamard Codes for Physically Unclonable Functions. ISIT 2021. To appear. [Online link]

6. Yi Liu, Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley and Olivier Rioul. On Conditional α-Information and its Application to Side-Channel Analysis. Submitted. [Online link, ArXiv]

7. Wei Cheng, Yi Liu, Sylvain Guilley and Olivier Rioul. Attacking Masked Cryptographic Implementations: Information-Theoretic Bounds. Submitted. [Online link, ArXiv]

8. Trevor Kroeger, Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley, Jean-Luc Danger and Naghmeh Karimi. Enhancing the Resiliency of Multi-Bit Parallel Arbiter-PUF and its Derivatives against Power Attacks. COSADE 2021. To appear. [Online link]

2020

1. Trevor Kroeger, Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley, Jean Luc Danger and Naghmeh Karimi. Effect of Aging on PUF Modeling Attacks based on Power Side-Channel Observations. DATE 2020 : 454–459. [Online link]

2. Yiwen Gao, Yongbin Zhou, Wei Cheng. Efficient electro-magnetic analysis of a GPU bitsliced AES implementation. Cybersecurity 3, 3 (2020). [Online link, BibTeX]

3. Wei Cheng, Claude Carlet, Kouassi Goli, Jean-Luc Danger and Sylvain Guilley. Detecting Faults in Inner Product Masking Scheme - IPM-FD: IPM with Fault Detection (Extended version*). J Cryptogr Eng (2020) : 1–15. [Online link, Cite]

4. Jingdian Ming, Yongbin Zhou, Wei Cheng, Huizhong Li, Guang Yang and Qian Zhang. Mind the Balance: Revealing the Vulnerabilities in Low Entropy Masking Schemes. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS), vol. 15, pp. 3694–3708, 2020. [Online link]

5. Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley, Claude Carlet, Sihem Mesnager and Jean-Luc Danger. Optimizing Inner Product Masking Scheme by A Coding Theory Approach. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (T-IFS) , vol. 16, pp. 220–235, 2021. [Online link, ePrint]

6. Trevor Kroeger, Wei Cheng, Sylvain Guilley, Jean Luc Danger and Naghmeh Karimi. Cross-PUF Attacks on Arbiter-PUFs through their Power Side-Channel. ITC 2020, 1–5 (short paper). [Online link]

2019

1. Wei Cheng, Claude Carlet, Kouassi Goli, Jean-Luc Danger and Sylvain Guilley. Detecting Faults in Inner Product Masking Scheme - IPM-FD: IPM with Fault Detection. PROOFS 2019 : 1-16. [Online link, Full version, Slides, BibTeX]

2018

1. Qian Zhang, Yongbin Zhou, Shuang Qiu, Wei Cheng, Jingdian Ming and Rui Zhang. A Compact AES Hardware Implementation Secure Against 1st-Order Side-Channel Attacks. ICCD 2018 : 545-552. [Online link, Full version, BibTeX]

2. Yiwen Gao, Wei Cheng, Hailong Zhang and Yongbin Zhou. Cache-Collision Attacks on GPU-Based AES Implementation with Electro-Magnetic Leakages. TrustCom/BigDataSE 2018 : 300-306. [Online link, Full version, BibTeX]

3. Yiwen Gao, Hailong Zhang, Wei Cheng, Yongbin Zhou and Yuchen Cao. Electro-magnetic analysis of GPU-based AES implementation. DAC 2018 : 121:1-121:6. [Online link, Full version, Poster, BibTeX]

4. Yiwen Gao, Yongbin Zhou and Wei Cheng. How Does Strict Parallelism Affect Security? A Case Study on the Side-Channel Attacks against GPU-based Bitsliced AES Implementation. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2018: 1080 (2018). [Online link, Full version, BibTeX]

5. Jingdian Ming, Wei Cheng, Huizhong Li, Guang Yang, Yongbin Zhou and Qian Zhang. Achilles’ Heel: the Unbalanced Mask Sets May Destroy a Masking Countermeasure. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2018: 745 (2018). [Online link, Full version, BibTeX]

2017

1. Wei Cheng, Chao Zheng, Yuchen Cao, Yongbin Zhou, Hailong Zhang, Sylvain Guilley and Laurent Sauvage. How Far Can We Reach? Breaking RSM-Masked AES-128 Implementation Using Only One Trace. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2017: 1144 (2017). [Online link, Full version, BibTeX]

2. Changhai Ou, Degang Sun, Zhu Wang, Xinping Zhou and Wei Cheng. Manifold Learning Towards Masking Implementations: A First Study. IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive 2017: 1112 (2017). [Online link, Full version, BibTeX]

2016

1. Wei Cheng, Yongbin Zhou and Laurent Sauvage. Differential Fault Analysis on Midori. ICICS 2016 : 307-317. [Online link, Full version, BibTeX]