Online Detection and Reactive Countermeasure for leakage from BPU using TVLA

• Main Authors: Bhattacharya, Sarani, Bhasin, Shivam, Mukhopadhyay, Debdeep
• Other Authors: 2018 31st International Conference on VLSI Design and 2018 17th International Conference on Embedded Systems (VLSID)
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Branch Mispredictions; TVLA
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88917; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44795
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Branch Prediction Units (BPUs) of computing systems have been targeted by several side channel analysis of public key encryptions. In recent years, performance counters have been used as a side channel source for the branch mispredictions which can be used to attack ciphers with user privileges. In...