2 papers
cs.CR2018
A Systematic Evaluation of Transient Execution Attacks and Defenses
Claudio Canella, Jo Van Bulck, Michael Schwarz +6
Research on transient execution attacks including Spectre and Meltdown showed that exception or branch misprediction events might leave secret-dependent traces in the CPU's microar…
cs.CR2018
SafeSpec: Banishing the Spectre of a Meltdown with Leakage-Free Speculation
Khaled N. Khasawneh, Esmaeil Mohammadian Koruyeh, Chengyu Song +3
Speculative execution which is used pervasively in modern CPUs can leave side effects in the processor caches and other structures even when the speculated instructions do not comm…