Modern processors expose software to information leakage through shared
microarchitectural state. One of the most severe leakage channels is cache contention …

Recent security vulnerabilities that target speculative execution (eg, Spectre) present a
significant challenge for processor design. These highly publicized vulnerabilities use …

In the last years, a series of side channels have been discovered on CPUs. These side
channels have been used in powerful attacks, eg, on cryptographic implementations, or as …

There is a constant evolution of technology for cloud environments, including the
development of new memory storage technology, such as persistent memory. The newly …

In recent years, microarchitectural attacks have been demonstrated to be a powerful attack
class. However, as our empirical analysis shows, there are numerous implementation …

The discovery of the Spectre attack in 2018 has sent shockwaves through the computer
industry, affecting processor vendors, OS providers, programming language developers …

We present nanoBench, a tool for evaluating small microbenchmarks using hardware
performance counters on Intel and AMD x86 systems. Most existing tools and libraries are …

CPU simulators are useful tools for modeling CPU execution behavior. However, they suffer
from inaccuracies due to the cost and complexity of setting their fine-grained parameters …

Microarchitectural attacks typically rely on precise timing sources to uncover short-lived
secret-dependent activity in the processor. In response, many browsers and even CPU …

The complexity of modern processor architectures has given rise to sophisticated
interactions among their components. Such interactions may result in potential attack vectors …