RSPP: Restricted Static Pseudo-Partitioning for Mitigation of Cross-Core Covert Channel Attacks

J Kaur, S Das - ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Cache timing channel attacks exploit the inherent properties of cache memories: hit and
miss time along with the shared nature of the cache to leak secret information. The side …

TPPD: Targeted Pseudo Partitioning based Defence for cross-core covert channel attacks

J Kaur, S Das - Journal of Systems Architecture, 2023 - Elsevier
Contemporary computing employs cache hierarchy to fill the speed gap between processors
and main memories. In order to optimise system performance, Last Level Caches (LLC) are …

Towards a metrics suite for evaluating cache side-channel vulnerability: Case studies on an open-source RISC-V processor

P Guo, Y Yan, J Wang, J Zhong, Y Liu, J Xu - Computers & Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Caches are key microarchitectural components of modern processors to improve memory
access speed. However, attackers can readily implement timing side-channel attacks by …

Evaluation on the impact of cache parameter selection in access-driven cache attacks

P Guo, Y Yan, B Ye, C Zhu, L Zhang, T Shen, L Chen - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Cache attacks exploit the hardware vulnerabilities inherent to modern processors and pose
a new threat to Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Intuitively, different cache parameter …

Combating Stealthy Thermal Covert Channel Attack With Its Thermal Signal Transmitted in Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

X Wang, S Wang, Y Jiang, AK Singh… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many-core systems are susceptible to attacks launched by thermal covert channel (TCC)
attacks. Detection of TCC attacks often relies on the use of threshold-based approaches or …

: Covert Channels Attack on Shared LLC Using MSHR Merging

AS Gangwar, PN Tanksale, S Das… - … Design, Automation & …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Modern multiprocessors include multiple cores, all of them share a large Last Level Cache
(LLC). Because of the shared nature of LLC, different timing channel attacks can be built by …

ACPC: Covert Channel Attack on Last Level Cache using Dynamic Cache Partitioning

J Kaur, S Das - 2023 24th International Symposium on Quality …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The Last Level Cache (LLC) of modern multicore processors is normally shared between
different cores and applications. Dynamic cache partitioning is applied to the LLC for fairly …