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cs.CR2018★ 200 cited
ret2spec: Speculative Execution Using Return Stack Buffers
Giorgi Maisuradze, Christian Rossow
Speculative execution is an optimization technique that has been part of CPUs for over a decade. It predicts the outcome and target of branch instructions to avoid stalling the exe…
cs.CR2018★ 12 cited
Speculose: Analyzing the Security Implications of Speculative Execution in CPUs
Giorgi Maisuradze, Christian Rossow
Whenever modern CPUs encounter a conditional branch for which the condition cannot be evaluated yet, they predict the likely branch target and speculatively execute code. Such pipe…