Towards Generic Power/EM Side-Channel Attacks: Memory Leakage on General-Purpose Computers

Today’s power/EM side-channel analysis is limited by the complexity of the target hardware. We investigate the feasibility of power/EM side-channel analysis of general-purpose computers. This paper makes a step towards this goal by analyzing memory operations of Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, a widely used general-purpose IoT device that is capable of running an operating system, and shows that it is possible to extract information about the data field of memory operations from near-field EM measurements.