FlexiTaint: A programmable accelerator for dynamic taint propagation

Proceedings - International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 173-184

  Venkataramani, Guru ^a   Doudalis, Ioannis ^a   Solihin, Yan ^b   Prvulovic, Milos ^a  

^a Georgia Tech

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE PERFORMANCES; DYNAMIC TAINTS; HARDWARE ACCELERATORS; MEMORY LOCATIONS; PACKED ARRAYS; PROCESSOR PIPELINES; PROGRAMMABLE ACCELERATORS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTERS; PIPELINES;

PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 57749197593     PISSN: 15300897     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HPCA.2008.4658637     Document Type: Conference Paper

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