PoisonIvy: Safe speculation for secure memory
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2016-12-14
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© 2016 IEEE.Encryption and integrity trees guard against physical attacks, but harm performance. Prior academic work has speculated around the latency of integrity verification, but has done so in an insecure manner. No industrial implementations of secure processors have included speculation. This work presents PoisonIvy, a mechanism which speculatively uses data before its integrity has been verified while preserving security and closing address-based side-channels. PoisonIvy reduces performance overheads from 40% to 20% for memory intensive workloads and down to 1.8%, on average.
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Andrew Douglas Hilton
Drew Hilton is a Professor of the Practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as Pratt’s Director of Innovation in Computing Education.
His main focus is on teaching professional-level programming skills to ECE’s master's students to prepare them for software engineering careers.
Professor Hilton also teaches a 3-week introduction to Programming Python for Duke's Master in Interdisciplinary Data Science, and Duke's Center for Computational Thinking.
He has two Coursera specializations, one in Java, and another in C.
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