Spying Across Chiplets: Side-Channel Attacks in 2.5/3D Integrated Systems

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Auteurs principaux: Di Natale, Giorgio, Rabache, Christelle, Hellier, Pierre-Louis, Podevin, Florence, Bourdel, Sylvain, Siragusa, Romain, Maistri, Paolo
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Publié: 2026
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author Di Natale, Giorgio
Rabache, Christelle
Hellier, Pierre-Louis
Podevin, Florence
Bourdel, Sylvain
Siragusa, Romain
Maistri, Paolo
author_facet Di Natale, Giorgio
Rabache, Christelle
Hellier, Pierre-Louis
Podevin, Florence
Bourdel, Sylvain
Siragusa, Romain
Maistri, Paolo
contents Advanced packaging and chiplet-based integration are increasingly adopted to build complex heterogeneous systems beyond the limits of monolithic scaling. While these architectures offer major benefits in terms of modularity, yield, and performance, they also introduce new physical attack surfaces. In this paper, we show that side-channel attacks can be mounted across chiplets within the same package or stack. Our key idea is that a communication-oriented chiplet, originally intended to interact with the external environment through an antenna, an RFID-like element, or another contactless coupling structure, can be repurposed as an internal observation platform. We formalize this threat through a realistic adversary model, describe the corresponding attack principle, and experimentally assess its feasibility. The obtained results demonstrate that signals captured through such a communication-oriented interface can reveal information correlated with the activity of a neighboring victim chiplet.
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spellingShingle Spying Across Chiplets: Side-Channel Attacks in 2.5/3D Integrated Systems
Di Natale, Giorgio
Rabache, Christelle
Hellier, Pierre-Louis
Podevin, Florence
Bourdel, Sylvain
Siragusa, Romain
Maistri, Paolo
Cryptography and Security
Advanced packaging and chiplet-based integration are increasingly adopted to build complex heterogeneous systems beyond the limits of monolithic scaling. While these architectures offer major benefits in terms of modularity, yield, and performance, they also introduce new physical attack surfaces. In this paper, we show that side-channel attacks can be mounted across chiplets within the same package or stack. Our key idea is that a communication-oriented chiplet, originally intended to interact with the external environment through an antenna, an RFID-like element, or another contactless coupling structure, can be repurposed as an internal observation platform. We formalize this threat through a realistic adversary model, describe the corresponding attack principle, and experimentally assess its feasibility. The obtained results demonstrate that signals captured through such a communication-oriented interface can reveal information correlated with the activity of a neighboring victim chiplet.
title Spying Across Chiplets: Side-Channel Attacks in 2.5/3D Integrated Systems
topic Cryptography and Security
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07486