Daniel Gruss

Malware Guard Extension: abusing Intel SGX to conceal cache attacks

2020 · Cybersecurity

Abstract In modern computer systems, user processes are isolated from each other by the operating system and the hardware. Additionally, in a cloud scenario it is crucial that the hypervisor isolates tenants from other tenants …

Systematic Analysis of Programming Languages and Their Execution Environments for Spectre Attacks

2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)

In this paper, we analyze the security of programming languages and their execution environments (compilers and interpreters) with respect to Spectre attacks. The analysis shows that only 16 out of 42 execution environments have mitigations …