Type of Publication: Article in Collected Edition

Advances and Throwbacks in Hardware-assisted Security - CASES: Special Session - Towards Secure Computer Architecture: Understanding Security Vulnerabilities and Emerging Attacks for Better Defenses

Author(s):

Brasser, Ferdinand; Davi, Lucas; Dhavlle, Abhijitt; Frassetto, Tommaso; Dinakarrao, Sai Manoj Pudukotai; Rafatirad, Setareh; Sadeghi, Ahmad-Reza; Sasan, Avesta; Sayadi, Hossein; Zeitouni, Shaza; Homayoun, Houman

Title of Anthology:

Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems

Publisher:

IEEE

Publication Date:

2018

Link to complete version:

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3283567

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Abstract

Hardware security architectures and primitives are becoming increasingly important in practice providing trust anchors and trusted execution environment to protect modern software systems. Over the past two decades we have witnessed various hardware security solutions and trends from Trusted Platform Modules (TPM), performance counters for security, ARM's TrustZone, and Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs), to very recent advances such as Intel's Software Guard Extension (SGX). Unfortunately, these solutions are rarely used by third party developers, make strong trust assumptions (including in manufacturers), are too expensive for small constrained devices, do not easily scale, or suffer from information leakage. Academic research has proposed a variety of solutions, in hardware security architectures, these advancements are rarely deployed in practice.