F6: Computer Systems Under Attack - Paying the Performance Price for Protection
2022 IEEE International Solid- State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) · 2022
Present-day computer systems are increasingly under attack on multiple fronts with new vulnerabilities being discovered every day at system, architecture, memory and physical level. While countermeasures against such attacks exist, they often impose significant overheads in performance and power. This forum will give an overview of recent security vulnerabilities, including speculative side-channels, memory exploits, physical attacks and discuss the overheads of detecting/mitigating against them. The forum also includes post-quantum cryptographic algorithms and homomorphic encryption accelerators that promise very high security value propositions, while imposing orders-of-magnitude increase in computational complexity.