NASCTY: Neuroevolution to Attack Side-channel Leakages Yielding Convolutional Neural Networks. (arXiv:2301.10802v1 [cs.NE])

Side-channel analysis (SCA) can obtain information related to the secret key
by exploiting leakages produced by the device. Researchers recently found that
neural networks (NNs) can execute a powerful profiling SCA, even on targets
protected with countermeasures. This paper explores the effectiveness of
Neuroevolution to Attack Side-channel Traces Yielding Convolutional Neural
Networks (NASCTY-CNNs), a novel genetic algorithm approach that applies genetic
operators on architectures' hyperparameters to produce CNNs for side-channel
analysis automatically. The results indicate that we can achieve performance …

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