Visible to the public Side-Channel Attack Resistance 2018Q2Conflict Detection Enabled

Submitted by RCJBob on Mon, 07/09/2018 - 9:47am

PI(s): Heechul Yun

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HARD PROBLEM(S) ADDRESSED:Resilient Architectures

PUBLIC ACCOMPLISHMENT HIGHLIGHTS:
Since the start of the year, micro-architectural side-channel attacks such as Meltdown and Spectre have received great interests from the research community and general public alike, and new attacks are keep being discovered.

In this project, we aim to fundamentally reduce or completely eradicate these micro-architectural side-channels by introducing new OS abstractions and minimally modifying micro-architecture and OS.

PUBLICATIONS FROM THE QUARTER:
Farzad Farshchi, Prathap Kumar Valsan, Renato Mancuso, Heechul Yun. "Deterministic Memory Abstraction and Supporting Multicore System Architecture." In Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS), July 2018.

This work was originally funded by the NSF and it constitutes a major technical foundation---new memory abstractions and supporting micro-architecture designs---that this project intends to utilize to reduce micro-architectural side-channel attack surfaces.

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