Spectres, virtual ghosts, and hardware support Article Swipe
Xiaowan Dong
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Zhuojia Shen
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John Criswell
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Alan L. Cox
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Sandhya Dwarkadas
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· 2018
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3214292.3214297
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· 2018
· Open Access
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· DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3214292.3214297
Side-channel attacks, such as Spectre and Meltdown, that leverage speculative execution pose a serious threat to computing systems. Worse yet, such attacks can be perpetrated by compromised operating system (OS) kernels to bypass defenses that protect applications from the OS kernel.
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