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RECONFIG
2009
IEEE
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14 years 4 days ago
Combined SCA and DFA Countermeasures Integrable in a FPGA Design Flow
Abstract—The main challenge when implementing cryptographic algorithms in hardware is to protect them against attacks that target directly the device. Two strategies are customar...
Shivam Bhasin, Jean-Luc Danger, Florent Flament, T...
IEEEPACT
2000
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Dynamic Branch Prediction for a VLIW Processor
This paper describes the design of a dynamic branchpredictorfor a VLIW processor. The developed branch predictor predicts the direction of a branch, i.e., taken or not taken, and ...
Jan Hoogerbrugge
EUROSYS
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Pointless tainting?: evaluating the practicality of pointer tainting
This paper evaluates pointer tainting, an incarnation of Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT), which has recently become an important technique in system security. Pointer tai...
Asia Slowinska, Herbert Bos
DSN
2007
IEEE
13 years 9 months ago
Augmenting Branch Predictor to Secure Program Execution
Although there are various ways to exploit software vulnerabilities for malicious attacks, the attacks always result in unexpected behavior in program execution, deviating from wh...
Yixin Shi, Gyungho Lee
ACSAC
2006
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Foreign Code Detection on the Windows/X86 Platform
As new attacks against Windows-based machines emerge almost on a daily basis, there is an increasing need to “lock down” individual users’ desktop machines in corporate comp...
Susanta Nanda, Wei Li, Lap-Chung Lam, Tzi-cker Chi...