Gleissenthall Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2023

SecuStack: Securing the Leaky Hardware/Software Boundary

Problem: Side-channel leaks via timing, cache, and speculation can expose sensitive information across traditional isolation barriers, putting our data at risk. Unfortunately, despite decades-long attempts to eliminate these leaks, new attacks are discovered by the day. Fundamentally, this is due to the following mismatch: Today's hardware is extremely complicated because of its myriad fast paths and performance optimizations, yet, we reason about it based on coarse, implicit, and inaccurate models. This divide between model and reality results in leaks and inefficient systems that fail to keep our data safe. Aim: SecuStack wants to put an end to this seemingly endless cycle of new attacks…

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