Non deterministic caches: A simple and effective defense against side channel attacks

Design Automation for Embedded Systems

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 221-230

  Keramidas, G ^a   Antonopoulos, A ^a   Serpanos, D N ^a   Kaxiras, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Cache attack; Cache decay; Side channel attack; Side channel cryptanalysis

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CACHE MEMORY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

CACHE ATTACK; CACHE DECAY; SIDE CHANNEL ATTACK; SIDE CHANNEL CRYPTANALYSIS; SIDE-CHANNEL ATTACKS;

CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 51749105240     PISSN: 09295585     EISSN: 15728080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10617-008-9018-y     Document Type: Article

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