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most citedHECTOR-V: A Heterogeneous CPU Architecture for a Secure RISC-V Execution Environment

43 citations · 65 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CR2023

SCRAMBLE-CFI: Mitigating Fault-Induced Control-Flow Attacks on OpenTitan

Pascal Nasahl, Stefan Mangard

Secure elements physically exposed to adversaries are frequently targeted by fault attacks. These attacks can be utilized to hijack the control-flow of software allowing the attack…

cs.CR2023

SFP: Providing System Call Flow Protection against Software and Fault Attacks

Robert Schilling, Pascal Nasahl, Martin Unterguggenberger +1

With the improvements in computing technologies, edge devices in the Internet-of-Things have become more complex. The enabler technology for these complex systems are powerful appl…

cs.CR2023

EC-CFI: Control-Flow Integrity via Code Encryption Counteracting Fault Attacks

Pascal Nasahl, Salmin Sultana, Hans Liljestrand +5

Fault attacks enable adversaries to manipulate the control-flow of security-critical applications. By inducing targeted faults into the CPU, the software's call graph can be escape…

cs.CR2022

SCFI: State Machine Control-Flow Hardening Against Fault Attacks

Pascal Nasahl, Martin Unterguggenberger, Rishub Nagpal +3

Fault injection (FI) is a powerful attack methodology allowing an adversary to entirely break the security of a target device. As finite-state machines (FSMs) are fundamental hardw…

cs.CR2022

SYNFI: Pre-Silicon Fault Analysis of an Open-Source Secure Element

Pascal Nasahl, Miguel Osorio, Pirmin Vogel +4

Fault attacks are active, physical attacks that an adversary can leverage to alter the control-flow of embedded devices to gain access to sensitive information or bypass protection…

cs.CR2021

SERVAS! Secure Enclaves via RISC-V Authenticryption Shield

Stefan Steinegger, David Schrammel, Samuel Weiser +2

Isolation is a long-standing challenge of software security. Traditional privilege rings and virtual memory are more and more augmented with concepts such as capabilities, protecti…

cs.CR2021

FIPAC: Thwarting Fault- and Software-Induced Control-Flow Attacks with ARM Pointer Authentication

Robert Schilling, Pascal Nasahl, Stefan Mangard

With the improvements of computing technology, more and more applications embed powerful ARM processors into their devices. These systems can be attacked by redirecting the control…

cs.CR2020★ 14 cited

CrypTag: Thwarting Physical and Logical Memory Vulnerabilities using Cryptographically Colored Memory

Pascal Nasahl, Robert Schilling, Mario Werner +3

Memory vulnerabilities are a major threat to many computing systems. To effectively thwart spatial and temporal memory vulnerabilities, full logical memory safety is required. Howe…

cs.CR2020★ 43 cited

HECTOR-V: A Heterogeneous CPU Architecture for a Secure RISC-V Execution Environment

Pascal Nasahl, Robert Schilling, Mario Werner +1

To ensure secure and trustworthy execution of applications, vendors frequently embed trusted execution environments into their systems. Here, applications are protected from advers…

cs.CR2018★ 8 cited

Pointing in the Right Direction - Securing Memory Accesses in a Faulty World

Robert Schilling, Mario Werner, Pascal Nasahl +1

Reading and writing memory are, besides computation, the most common operations a processor performs. The correctness of these operations is therefore essential for the proper exec…