2020/07/31 by Jan Philipp Thoma, Jakob Feldtkeller, Markus Krausz +2 · 4 voices · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Security and Verification in Computing #Advanced Malware Detection Techniques #Cryptographic Implementations and Security
paper · pdf · doi:10.1145/3471621.3471857
Recent research has revealed an ever-growing class of microarchitectural attacks that exploit speculative execution, a standard feature in modern processors. Proposed and deployed countermeasures involve a variety of compiler updates, firmware updates, and hardware updates. None of the deployed countermeasures have convincing security arguments, and many of them have already been broken.