Although clouds have strong virtual memory isolation guarantees, cache attacks stemming
from shared caches have proved to be a large security problem. However, despite the past …

Recently, side-channel attacks on Last Level Caches (LLCs) were demonstrated. The
attacks require the ability to evict critical data from the cache hierarchy, making future …

On 20 March, 1974, Professor Edward Banfield, of the University of Pennsylvania, was
prevented from delivering a lecture at the University of Chicago. Professor Banfield, who is a …

Directories for cache coherence have been recently shown to be vulnerable to conflict-
based side-channel attacks. By forcing directory conflicts, an attacker can evict victim …

Direct Cache Access (DCA) enables a network interface card (NIC) to load and store data
directly on the processor cache, as conventional Direct Memory Access (DMA) is no longer …

Over the last 25 years, the use of caches has advanced significantly in mainstream
microprocessors to address the memory wall challenge. As we transformed microprocessors …

Over recent years, a growing body of research has shown that a considerable portion of the
shared last-level cache (SLLC) is dead, meaning that the corresponding cache lines are …

As the performance of general-purpose processors faces diminishing improvements,
computing systems are increasingly equipped with domain-specific accelerators. Today's …

With the advent of secure function evaluation (SFE), distrustful parties can jointly compute on
their private inputs without disclosing anything besides the results. Yao's garbled circuit …

Cache-coherence protocols have been one of the greatest challenges in formal verification
of hardware, due to their central complication of executing multiple memory-access …