More and more security attacks today are perpetrated by exploiting the hardware: memory errors can be exploited to take over systems, side-channel attacks leak secrets to the outside worlds, weak random number generators render cryptography ineffective, etc. At the same time, many of the tenets of efficient design are in tension with guaranteeing security. For instance, classic secure hardware does not allow to optimize common execution patterns, share resources, or provide deep introspection.
Authors: Wayne Burleson, Onur Mutlu, Mohit Tiwari
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2897937.2905022
Publish Year: 2016
