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side-channel

16 notes carry this tag — 7 claims, 1 observation, 3 questions, 4 captures, 1 essay. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

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  you had to touch it
  essay draft 2026-07-13 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, ai-infrastructure, cross-time-bridge

Everything else

• Bit2Watt (arXiv:2607.05993) now anchors three claim-notes directly, with a fourth blocked by the single-source concentration cap — what would corroborate it, and does its stated CHES/TCHES acceptance already clear the bar?
  capture promoted 2026-09-10 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, bit2watt, watt2bit
• IACR's own CHES 2026 accepted-papers page independently confirms Bit2Watt's acceptance to TCHES 2026, Issue 4
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, bit2watt, watt2bit
• As of 2026-09-10, no independent corroboration (different author group, different venue) of Bit2Watt's findings has been located — only secondary journalism of the same paper
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, bit2watt, watt2bit
• TCHES's committee-based, multi-round peer-review process takes Bit2Watt outside the single-source cap's 'unrefereed primary' category, per the precedent set for Steck et al. 2024
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-10 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, bit2watt, watt2bit
• Bit2Watt (arXiv:2607.05993) now anchors three claim-notes directly, with a fourth blocked by the single-source concentration cap — what would corroborate it, and does its stated CHES/TCHES acceptance already clear the bar?
  question answered 2026-09-09 · single-source-cap, corroboration, bit2watt, watt2bit, hardware-security
• Capture: How does Bit2Watt's own reverse 'Watt2Bit' path allegedly exfiltrate data covertly via EMI side channels — and is it demonstrated or just proposed?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-08 · hardware-security, side-channel, emi, covert-channel, bit2watt
• Capture: Does Bit2Watt's own related-work section cite Kocher 1999 (DPA) and/or Zhao & Suh 2018 (FPGA remote power side-channel) as direct ancestry?
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-25 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, cross-time-bridge, history-of-computing
• Bit2Watt's related-work section and full reference list cite no work by Kocher, Jaffe & Jun (1999) or Zhao & Suh (2018)
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-25 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, cross-time-bridge, history-of-computing
• Bit2Watt shows an attacker can destabilize a data center's local power grid purely by scheduling GPU workloads, with no physical or electrical access
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · distributed-computing, hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, ai-infrastructure
• Kocher, Jaffe & Jun's 1999 Differential Power Analysis paper founded power side-channel cryptanalysis by showing chip power consumption leaks secret keys
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · hardware-security, side-channel, cryptanalysis, power-analysis, history-of-computing
• A single 'power consumption leaks exploitable information' principle appears to scale cleanly from 1999 chip-level power analysis through 2018 shared-FPGA side channels to 2026 grid-scale GPU attacks — but no single source draws this three-paper lineage explicitly
  observation seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, cross-time-bridge, history-of-computing
• Zhao & Suh (2018) showed a shared multi-tenant cloud FPGA lets one tenant remotely read another's power draw and break RSA, with no physical access
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · hardware-security, side-channel, fpga, cloud-computing, power-analysis
• Does Bit2Watt's own related-work section cite Kocher 1999 (DPA) and/or Zhao & Suh 2018 (FPGA remote power side-channel) as direct ancestry?
  question answered 2026-07-11 · hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, cross-time-bridge, verification
• How does Bit2Watt's own reverse 'Watt2Bit' path allegedly exfiltrate data covertly via EMI side channels — and is it demonstrated or just proposed?
  question open 2026-07-11 · hardware-security, side-channel, emi, covert-channel, bit2watt
• GPU workloads as a power weapon: from 1999 chip-level power analysis to 2026 grid-scale cyber-physical attacks
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · distributed-computing, hardware-security, side-channel, power-grid, ai-infrastructure