Secure Analog-to-Digital Conversion Against Power Side-Channel Attack

Taehoon Jeong, MIT

Taehoon Jeong received the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA, in 2020. He’s currently a senior member of technical staff at Maxim Integrated Products, working on data converter designs.

When an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is converting a confidential analog signal into digital codes, it may expose a critical hardware security loophole by leaking the data through its power side-channel. This talk explains how an attacker can employ neural networks to perform an ADC power side-channel attack (PSA) and how a user can defend their ADCs with current equalizers.

Secure Analog-to-Digital Conversion Against Power Side-Channel Attack

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