3 papers
cs.CR2026
MIPSBLEED: Uncovering Microarchitectural Timing Leaks in Pervasive Embedded Processors
Ahmed Najeeb, Billy Bob Brumley
Despite their age, MIPS processors remain deeply embedded in routers, industrial controllers, and IoT systems, yet their security against modern side-channel attacks has received l…
cs.CR2026
SoK: The Constant Time Model
Billy Bob Brumley
Constant time programming patterns is the primary defense against timing attacks on cryptographic implementations, yet what "constant time" means varies across academia and industr…
cs.CR2025
U Can Touch This! Microarchitectural Timing Attacks via Machine Clears
Billy Bob Brumley
Microarchitectural timing attacks exploit subtle timing variations caused by hardware behaviors to leak sensitive information. In this paper, we introduce MCHammer, a novel side-ch…