Memory encryption has yet to be used at the core of operating system designs to provide
confidentiality of code and data. As a result, numerous vulnerabilities exist at every level of …

This paper introduces QARMA, a new family of lightweight tweakable block ciphers targeted
at applications such as memory encryption, the generation of very short tags for hardware …

Cryptographic protection of memory is an essential ingredient for any technology that allows
a closed computing system to run software in a trustworthy manner and handle secrets …

Trusted computing platforms aim to provide trust in computations performed by sensitive
applications. Verifying the integrity of memory contents is a crucial security service that these …

In today's digital world, computer security issues have become increasingly important. In
particular, researchers have proposed designs for secure processors which utilize hardware …

AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) is an emerging technology to secure virtual
machines (VM) even in the presence of malicious hypervisors. However, the lack of trust in …

Phase Change Memory (PCM) is an emerging Non Volatile Memory (NVM) technology that
has the potential to provide scalable high-density memory systems. While the non-volatility …

Securing off-chip main memory is essential for protection from adversaries with physical
access to systems. However, current secure-memory designs incur considerable …

This paper presents a new metric, which we call Signal Available to Attacker (SAVAT), that
measures the side channel signal created by a specific single-instruction difference in …

Non-Volatile Main Memory (NVMM) systems provide high performance by directly
manipulating persistent data in-memory, but require crash consistency support to recover …