Side-channel attacks have become a severe threat to the confidentiality of computer
applications and systems. One popular type of such attacks is the microarchitectural attack …

Users of modern data-processing services such as tax preparation or genomic screening
are forced to trust them with data that the users wish to keep secret. Ryoan1 protects secret …

Most commercial multi-core processors incorporate hardware coherence protocols to
support efficient data transfers and updates between their constituent cores. While hardware …

Trustworthy software requires strong privacy and security guarantees from a secure trust
base in hardware. While chipmakers provide hardware support for basic security and …

Although hardware-based trusted execution environments (TEEs) have evolved to provide
strong isolation with efficient hardware supports, their current monolithic model poses …

Autonomous vehicles are becoming increasingly popular, but their reliance on computer
systems to sense and operate in the physical world introduces new security risks. In this …

Micro-architecture units like caches are notorious for leaking secrets across security
domains. An attacker program can contend for on-chip state or bandwidth and can even use …

The memory system is vulnerable to a number of security breaches, eg, an attacker can
interfere with program execution by disrupting values stored in memory. Modern Intel® …

Path ORAM (Oblivious RAM) is a recently proposed ORAM protocol for preventing
information leakage from memory access sequences. It receives wide adoption due to its …

Modern processors dynamically adjust clock frequencies and voltages to reduce energy
consumption. Recent Intel processors separate the uncore frequency from the core …