2 papers
cs.CR2026
Automated Template-free Synthesis of Instruction-Centric Leakage Contracts for Black-Box CPUs
Elvira Moreno, Tiziano Marinaro, Ryan Williams +4
Side-channel attacks pose a significant security threat for modern computing platforms, because they exploit subtle discrepancies in CPU behaviors to leak sensitive information. To…
cs.PL2024
Do You Even Lift? Strengthening Compiler Security Guarantees Against Spectre Attacks
Xaver Fabian, Marco Patrignani, Marco Guarnieri +1
Mainstream compilers implement different countermeasures to prevent specific classes of speculative execution attacks. Unfortunately, these countermeasures either lack formal guara…