Advances in Side-Channel Attack Mitigations

The field of side-channel attack mitigations is rapidly evolving, with a focus on developing innovative solutions to protect against various types of attacks. Recent research has centered around improving the security of cryptographic libraries, stream processing systems, and microprocessors. Notably, new defense strategies have been proposed to counter electromagnetic side-channel attacks and interrupt-based stepping attacks. These advancements have the potential to significantly enhance the security of sensitive applications and data. Noteworthy papers include: ShuffleV, which proposes a microarchitectural defense strategy against electromagnetic side-channel attacks, and AEX-NStep, which introduces a probabilistic interrupt counting attack on Intel SGX.

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(Dis)Proving Spectre Security with Speculation-Passing Style

Leaking Queries On Secure Stream Processing Systems

ShuffleV: A Microarchitectural Defense Strategy against Electromagnetic Side-Channel Attacks in Microprocessors

AEX-NStep: Probabilistic Interrupt Counting Attacks on Intel SGX

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