These are called “side-channel attacks” because information is acquired through a channel not meant for communication. Researchers at MIT have shown that machine-learning-assisted side-channel attacks are both extremely robust and poorly understood. For a class assignment, he tried to replicate a machine-learning-assisted side-channel attack from the literature. Machine learning can’t prove causality in these types of attacks, Cook says. Building off this work, the researchers plan to develop a systematic analysis framework for machine-learning-assisted side-channel attacks.

Source: CNN June 09, 2022 04:01 UTC