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Leo Weissbart

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arXiv2024

CNN architecture extraction on edge GPU

Neural networks have become popular due to their versatility and state-of-the-art results in many applications, such as image classification, natural language processing, speech recognition, forecasting, etc. These applications are also used in resource-constrained environments such as embedded devices. In this work, the susceptibility of neural network implementations to reverse engineering is explored on the NVIDIA Jetson Nano microcomputer via side-channel analysis. To this end, an architecture extraction attack is presented. In the attack, 15 popular convolutional neural network architectures (EfficientNets, MobileNets, NasNet, etc.) are implemented on the GPU of Jetson Nano and the electromagnetic radiation of the GPU is analyzed during the inference operation of the neural networks. The results of the analysis show that neural network architectures are easily distinguishable using deep learning-based side-channel analysis.

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arXiv2023

BarraCUDA: Edge GPUs do Leak DNN Weights

Over the last decade, applications of neural networks (NNs) have spread to various aspects of our lives. A large number of companies base their businesses on building products that use neural networks for tasks such as face recognition, machine translation, and self-driving cars. Much of the intellectual property underpinning these products is encoded in the exact parameters of the neural networks. Consequently, protecting these is of utmost priority to businesses. At the same time, many of these products need to operate under a strong threat model, in which the adversary has unfettered physical control of the product. In this work, we present BarraCUDA, a novel attack on general purpose Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) that can extract parameters of neural networks running on the popular Nvidia Jetson Nano device. BarraCUDA uses correlation electromagnetic analysis to recover parameters of real-world convolutional neural networks.

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