Archive of posts tagged: Security
Reflections on trusting SGX
The security community will remember the year of 2018 as the year of speculative execution attacks. Meltdown and Spectre, the recent Foreshadow (L1TF in Intel’s terminology), and their variants demonstrate how the immense processor design complexity, perpetual...
Sacrificing Interoperability for Information Security: Containing Data Loss and Malware Propagation
Using hardware that does not provide software and data interoperability could address security problems.
Speculating about speculation: on the (lack of) security guarantees of Spectre-V1 mitigations
Spectre and Meltdown opened the Pandora box of a new class of speculative execution attacks that defeat standard memory protection mechanisms. These attacks are not theoretical, they pose a real and immediate security threat, and have been reportedly exploited by...
A Computer Architecture Solution to Fake News and Autonomous Car Accidents
Can principles for engineering robust computer systems used to build robust societies?
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