University of Minnesota
Security and Privacy in Computing
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Readings on: Architectural Side Channels

Optional background reading: Marc Andrysco, David Kohlbrenner, Keaton Mowery, Ranjit Jhala, Sorin Lerner, and Hovav Shacham. “On Subnormal Floating Point and Abnormal Timing” In IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (“Oakland”), pages 623–639, San Jose, CA, USA, May 2015. [Conference] [IEEE]

Main reading for February 13th: David Kohlbrenner and Hovav Shacham. “On the effectiveness of mitigations against floating-point timing channels” In USENIX Security Symposium, pages 729–745, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2017.
[USENIX]

Main reading for February 15th: Paul Kocher, Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Werner Haas, Mike Hamburg, Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard, Thomas Prescher, Michael Schwarz, and Yuval Yarom. “Spectre Attacks: Exploiting Speculative Execution” Preprint, January 3rd 2018.
[arXiv]