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ICCD
2006
IEEE
103views Hardware» more  ICCD 2006»
15 years 8 months ago
Architectural Support for Run-Time Validation of Control Flow Transfer
—Current micro-architecture blindly uses the address in the program counter to fetch and execute instructions without validating its legitimacy. Whenever this blind-folded instru...
Yixin Shi, Sean Dempsey, Gyungho Lee
MUE
2008
IEEE
161views Multimedia» more  MUE 2008»
15 years 6 months ago
A Rekey-Boosted Security Protocol in Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Network
Hierarchical wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been shown to improve system performance, reduce messages redundancy, and economize energy. However, due to the characteristics o...
Yi-Ying Zhang, WenCheng Yang, Kee-Bum Kim, Min-Yu ...
ESORICS
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
SilentKnock: Practical, Provably Undetectable Authentication
Port knocking is a technique first introduced in the blackhat and trade literature to prevent attackers from discovering and exploiting potentially vulnerable services on a networ...
Eugene Y. Vasserman, Nicholas Hopper, John Laxson,...
ISPASS
2005
IEEE
15 years 5 months ago
Balancing Performance and Reliability in the Memory Hierarchy
Cosmic-ray induced soft errors in cache memories are becoming a major threat to the reliability of microprocessor-based systems. In this paper, we present a new method to accurate...
Hossein Asadi, Vilas Sridharan, Mehdi Baradaran Ta...
CCS
2008
ACM
15 years 1 months ago
Deconstructing new cache designs for thwarting software cache-based side channel attacks
Software cache-based side channel attacks present a serious threat to computer systems. Previously proposed countermeasures were either too costly for practical use or only effect...
Jingfei Kong, Onur Aciiçmez, Jean-Pierre Se...