Countermeasures against branch target buffer attacks

Proceedings Workshop on Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance in Cryptography, FDTC 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 75-79

  Agosta, Giovanni ^a   Breveglieri, Luca ^a   Pelosi, Gerardo ^b   Koren, Israel ^c  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

^c University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTACK METHODS; BRANCH TARGET BUFFERS; CODE TRANSFORMATIONS; COUNTER-MEASURES; CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHMS; EXECUTION TIMES; PERFORMANCE PENALTIES; PUBLIC KEYS; SOFTWARE IMPLEMENTATIONS;

COSINE TRANSFORMS; FAULT TOLERANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 47949084990     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FDTC.2007.4318987     Document Type: Conference Paper

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