POLARIS: Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Mitigating Power Side-Channel Leakage

Microelectronic systems are widely used in many sensitive applications (e.g., manufacturing, energy, defense). These systems increasingly handle sensitive data (e.g., encryption key) and are vulnerable to diverse threats, such as, power sidechannel attacks, which infer sensitive data through dynamic...

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Published in:	2025 62nd ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC) pp. 1 - 7
Main Authors:	Mahfuz, Tanzim, Paria, Sudipta, Suha, Tasneem, Bhunia, Swarup, Chakraborty, Prabuddha
Format:	Conference Proceeding
Language:	English
Published:	IEEE 22.06.2025
Subjects:	Explainable AI Explainable Artificial Intelligence Hardware Security Manufacturing Microelectronics Performance gain Power side-channel Analysis and Mitigation Prevention and mitigation Runtime Scalability Synthetic data System-on-chip Training
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Summary:	Microelectronic systems are widely used in many sensitive applications (e.g., manufacturing, energy, defense). These systems increasingly handle sensitive data (e.g., encryption key) and are vulnerable to diverse threats, such as, power sidechannel attacks, which infer sensitive data through dynamic power profile. In this paper, we present a novel framework, POLARIS for mitigating power side channel leakage using an Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) guided masking approach. POLARIS uses an unsupervised process to automatically build a tailored training dataset and utilize it to train a masking model. The POLARIS framework outperforms state-of-the-art mitigation solutions (e.g., VALIANT) in terms of leakage reduction, execution time, and overhead across large designs.
DOI:	10.1109/DAC63849.2025.11132622