| Title | pcSVF: An Evaluation of Side-Channel Vulnerability of Port Contention |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2020 |
| Authors | Liu, Xiaoyang, Zhu, Ziyuan |
| Conference Name | 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom) |
| Keywords | correlation coefficient, Current measurement, Metrics, multicore computing security, Multicore processing, port contention, privacy, Program processors, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Resource management, Scalability, security, Side channel, side-channel attacks, Vulnerability |
| Abstract | The threats from side-channel attacks to modern processors has become a serious problem, especially under the enhancement of the microarchitecture characteristics with multicore and resource sharing. Therefore, the research and measurement of the vulnerability of the side-channel attack of the system is of great significance for computer designers. Most of the current evaluation methods proposed by researchers are only for typical cache side-channel attacks. In this paper, we propose a method to measure systems' vulnerability to side-channel attacks caused by port contention called pcSVF. We collected the traces of the victim and attacker and computed the correlation coefficient between them, thus we can measure the vulnerability of the system against side-channel attack. Then we analyzed the effectiveness of the method through the results under different system defense schemes. |
| DOI | 10.1109/TrustCom50675.2020.00248 |
| Citation Key | liu_pcsvf_2020 |
pcSVF: An Evaluation of Side-Channel Vulnerability of Port Contention