Thomas Eisenbarth

AutoLock: Why Cache Attacks on ARM Are Harder Than You Think

2017 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Attacks on the microarchitecture of modern processors have become a practical threat to security and privacy in desktop and cloud computing. Recently, cache attacks have successfully been demonstrated on ARM based mobile devices, suggesting they …

A Tale of Two Shares: Why Two-Share Threshold Implementation Seems Worthwhile-and Why it is Not.

2016 · IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive

This work explores the possibilities for practical Threshold Implementation (TI) with only two shares in order for a smaller design that needs less randomness but is still first-order leakage resistant. We present the first two-share …

Microarchitectural Security of AWS Firecracker VMM for Serverless Cloud Platforms

2023 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Firecracker is a virtual machine manager (VMM) built by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for serverless cloud platforms, services that run code for end users on a per-task basis, automatically managing server infrastructure. Firecracker provides fast …