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Hardware-Software Contracts for Secure Speculation
Marco Guarnieri, Boris Köpf, Jan Reineke +1
Since the discovery of Spectre, a large number of hardware mechanisms for secure speculation has been proposed. Intuitively, more defensive mechanisms are less efficient but can se…
Flushgeist: Cache Leaks from Beyond the Flush
Pepe Vila, Andreas Abel, Marco Guarnieri +2
Flushing the cache, using instructions like clflush and wbinvd, is commonly proposed as a countermeasure against access-based cache attacks. In this report, we show that several In…
Theory and Practice of Finding Eviction Sets
Pepe Vila, Boris Köpf, José Francisco Morales
Many micro-architectural attacks rely on the capability of an attacker to efficiently find small eviction sets: groups of virtual addresses that map to the same cache set. This cap…
Loophole: Timing Attacks on Shared Event Loops in Chrome
Pepe Vila, Boris Köpf
Event-driven programming (EDP) is the prevalent paradigm for graphical user interfaces, web clients, and it is rapidly gaining importance for server-side and network programming. C…