A Simple Transformer Pipeline for Full-Key Side-Channel Attacks on Uncropped Datasets
Researchers demonstrate a transformer architecture that recovers full AES keys from raw, uncropped power traces—eliminating the manual trace-trimming step that historically limited practical side-channel attacks on embedded devices.
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arXiv:2608.30105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Deep learning-based side-channel analysis has historically focused on single-byte targets and manually cropped traces, which risks discarding exploitable leakage. While recent work has proposed specialized architectures and resampling techniques to address this gap, the literature lacks a simple transformer baseline for simultaneous full-key attacks on uncropped traces. We present an open-source transformer implementation for uncropped full-key at
Editorial Analysis
Automating full-key side-channel extraction from raw traces lowers the expertise barrier for attacking embedded cryptographic hardware, which is widely deployed across European payment and identity infrastructure.
Request side-channel resistance test reports from hardware vendors that include deep-learning-based attack scenarios with uncropped datasets.
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