Keep the PokerFace on! Thwarting cache side channel attacks by memory bus monitoring and cache obfuscation

Abstract Cloud instances are vulnerable to cross-core, cross-VM attacks against the shared, inclusive last-level cache. Automated cache template attacks, in particular, are very powerful as the vulnerabilities do not need to be manually identified. Such attacks can be devised using both the Prime+Pr...

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Main Authors: Arun Raj, Janakiram Dharanipragada
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-12-01
Series:Journal of Cloud Computing: Advances, Systems and Applications
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13677-017-0101-4