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cs.CR2026

HULK: An Efficient Algorithm for Enabling Fast Bulk Bitwise Operations on Homomorphically Encrypted Data

Mayank Kabra, Phillip Widdowson, Harshita Gupta +9

A wide range of important cloud applications, e.g., database analytics, graph analytics, and genome analysis, spend a considerable amount of time performing bulk bitwise operations…

cs.CR2026

MORDOR: Mitigating Overheads of Read Disturbance Preventive Operations via Elastic Refresh Scheduling

Maria Makeenkova, Ataberk Olgun, F. Nisa Bostancı +3

Modern DRAM chips are susceptible to read disturbance phenomena such as RowHammer, where repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of DRAM cells (i.e., a DRAM row) induces bitflips in…

cs.CR2026

ColumnKeeper: Efficient Solutions to the ColumnDisturb Vulnerability in DRAM-based Systems

Andreas Kosmas Kakolyris, F. Nisa Bostanci, Ataberk Olgun +7

Modern DRAM chips are vulnerable to read disturbance phenomena such as RowHammer and RowPress, which induce bitflips after accessing nearby rows a certain number of times (the read…

cs.CR2026

Memory-Centric Computing: Security Benefits and Challenges of Processing-in-DRAM

Ismail Emir Yuksel, F. Nisa Bostanci, Ataberk Olgun +1

Today's computing systems are processor-centric: they require frequent data movement between processing elements (e.g., CPU) and main memory (DRAM), leading to significant ineffici…

cs.CR2026

ScaleDisturb: Exploiting Temporal Asymmetry to Amplify Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips

Jikun Wang, Haocong Luo, Ataberk Olgun +6

DRAM suffers from read disturbance phenomena (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing or continuously keeping open a DRAM row (aggressor row) induces bitflips in…

cs.CR2026

Taking Cryptography Out of the Data Path via Near-Memory Processing in DRAM

Nicola Barcarolo, Brahmaiah Gandham, Mohammad Sadrosadati +3

Cryptographic algorithms such as AES-128 and SHA-256 are fundamental to ensuring data security and integrity. Although these algorithms are computationally efficient, their perform…

cs.CR2026

HE-PIM: Demystifying Homomorphic Operations on a Real-world Processing-in-Memory System

Harshita Gupta, Mayank Kabra, Jaewoo Park +9

Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables computation over encrypted data, offering strong privacy guarantees for untrusted computing environments. Practical adoption remains limited by…

cs.CR2025

CIPHERMATCH: Accelerating Homomorphic Encryption-Based String Matching via Memory-Efficient Data Packing and In-Flash Processing

Mayank Kabra, Rakesh Nadig, Harshita Gupta +7

Homomorphic encryption (HE) allows secure computation on encrypted data without revealing the original data, providing significant benefits for privacy-sensitive applications. Many…

cs.CR2025

Understanding and Mitigating Covert Channel and Side Channel Vulnerabilities Introduced by RowHammer Defenses

F. Nisa Bostancı, Oğuzhan Canpolat, Ataberk Olgun +5

DRAM chips are vulnerable to read disturbance phenomena (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing or keeping open a DRAM row causes bitflips in nearby rows. Attack…

cs.CR2025

Chronus: Understanding and Securing the Cutting-Edge Industry Solutions to DRAM Read Disturbance

Oğuzhan Canpolat, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Geraldo F. Oliveira +6

We 1) present the first rigorous security, performance, energy, and cost analyses of the state-of-the-art on-DRAM-die read disturbance mitigation method, Per Row Activation Countin…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Understanding the Security Benefits and Overheads of Emerging Industry Solutions to DRAM Read Disturbance

Oğuzhan Canpolat, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Geraldo F. Oliveira +3

We present the first rigorous security, performance, energy, and cost analyses of the state-of-the-art on-DRAM-die read disturbance mitigation method, Per Row Activation Counting (…

cs.CR2024

BreakHammer: Enhancing RowHammer Mitigations by Carefully Throttling Suspect Threads

Oğuzhan Canpolat, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Ataberk Olgun +5

RowHammer is a major read disturbance mechanism in DRAM where repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of DRAM cells (DRAM row) induces bitflips in other physically nearby DRAM rows.…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Revisiting Main Memory-Based Covert and Side Channel Attacks in the Context of Processing-in-Memory

F. Nisa Bostanci, Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, Ataberk Olgun +6

We introduce IMPACT, a set of high-throughput main memory-based timing attacks that leverage characteristics of processing-in-memory (PiM) architectures to establish covert and sid…

cs.CR2024

CoMeT: Count-Min-Sketch-based Row Tracking to Mitigate RowHammer at Low Cost

F. Nisa Bostanci, Ismail Emir Yuksel, Ataberk Olgun +5

We propose a new RowHammer mitigation mechanism, CoMeT, that prevents RowHammer bitflips with low area, performance, and energy costs in DRAM-based systems at very low RowHammer th…

cs.CR2024

Spatial Variation-Aware Read Disturbance Defenses: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Solutions

Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı, Yahya Can Tuğrul, Geraldo F. Oliveira +4

Read disturbance in modern DRAM chips is a widespread phenomenon and is reliably used for breaking memory isolation, a fundamental building block for building robust systems. RowHa…

cs.CR2023

Evaluating Homomorphic Operations on a Real-World Processing-In-Memory System

Harshita Gupta, Mayank Kabra, Juan Gómez-Luna +2

Computing on encrypted data is a promising approach to reduce data security and privacy risks, with homomorphic encryption serving as a facilitator in achieving this goal. In this…

cs.CR2023★ 2 cited

Read Disturbance in High Bandwidth Memory: A Detailed Experimental Study on HBM2 DRAM Chips

Ataberk Olgun, Majd Osseiran, Abdullah Giray Yaglikci +6

We experimentally demonstrate the effects of read disturbance (RowHammer and RowPress) and uncover the inner workings of undocumented read disturbance defense mechanisms in High Ba…

cs.CR2023★ 4 cited

ABACuS: All-Bank Activation Counters for Scalable and Low Overhead RowHammer Mitigation

Ataberk Olgun, Yahya Can Tugrul, Nisa Bostanci +6

We introduce ABACuS, a new low-cost hardware-counter-based RowHammer mitigation technique that performance-, energy-, and area-efficiently scales with worsening RowHammer vulnerabi…

cs.CR2022★ 13 cited

SpyHammer: Understanding and Exploiting RowHammer under Fine-Grained Temperature Variations

Lois Orosa, Ulrich Rührmair, A. Giray Yaglikci +7

RowHammer is a DRAM vulnerability that can cause bit errors in a victim DRAM row solely by accessing its neighboring DRAM rows at a high-enough rate. Recent studies demonstrate tha…