A survey of microarchitectural side-channel vulnerabilities, attacks, and defenses in cryptography

• Main Authors: Lou, Xiaoxuan, Zhang, Tianwei, Jiang, Jun, Zhang, Yinqian
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computer systems organization::Computer system implementation; Microarchitecture; Cryptography
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/156083
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Side-channel attacks have become a severe threat to the confidentiality of computer applications and systems. One popular type of such attacks is the microarchitectural attack, where the adversary exploits the hardware features to break the protection enforced by the operating system and steal the s...