Denial-of-Service on FPGA-based Cloud Infrastructures — Attack and Defense

This paper presents attacks targeting the FPGAs of AWS F1 instances at the electrical level through power-hammering, where excessive dynamic power is used to crash FPGA instances. We demonstrate different power-hammering attacks that pass all AWS security fences implemented on F1 instances, includin...

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Main Authors: Tuan La, Khoa Pham, Joseph Powell, Dirk Koch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ruhr-Universität Bochum 2021-07-01
Series:Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems
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Online Access:https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/8982