TY - JOUR
T1 - Are Timing-Based Side-Channel Attacks Feasible in Shared, Modern Computing Hardware?
AU - Montasari, Reza
AU - Hosseinian-Far, Amin
AU - Hill, Richard
AU - Montaseri, Farshad
AU - Sharma, Mak
AU - Shabbir, Shahid
PY - 2018/4/1
Y1 - 2018/4/1
N2 - There exist various vulnerabilities in computing hardware that adversaries can exploit to mount attacks against the users of such hardware. Microarchitectural Attacks, the result of these vulnerabilities, take advantage of Microarchitectural performance of processor implementations, revealing hidden computing process. Leveraging Microarchitectural resources, adversaries can potentially launch Timing-Based Side-Channel Attacks in order to leak information via timing. In view of these security threats against computing hardware, we analyse current attacks that take advantage of Microarchitectural elements in shared computing hardware. Our analysis focuses only on Timing-Based Side-Channel Attacks against the components of modern PC platforms - with references being made also to other platforms when relevant - as opposed to any other variations of Side-Channel Attacks which have a broad application range. To this end, we analyse Timing Attacks performed against processor and cache components, again with references to other components when appropriate.
AB - There exist various vulnerabilities in computing hardware that adversaries can exploit to mount attacks against the users of such hardware. Microarchitectural Attacks, the result of these vulnerabilities, take advantage of Microarchitectural performance of processor implementations, revealing hidden computing process. Leveraging Microarchitectural resources, adversaries can potentially launch Timing-Based Side-Channel Attacks in order to leak information via timing. In view of these security threats against computing hardware, we analyse current attacks that take advantage of Microarchitectural elements in shared computing hardware. Our analysis focuses only on Timing-Based Side-Channel Attacks against the components of modern PC platforms - with references being made also to other platforms when relevant - as opposed to any other variations of Side-Channel Attacks which have a broad application range. To this end, we analyse Timing Attacks performed against processor and cache components, again with references to other components when appropriate.
KW - Side-channel attacks
KW - hardware vulnerabilities
KW - microarchitectural attacks
KW - processor
KW - attack taxonomy
UR - https://www.igi-global.com/journal/international-journal-organizational-collective-intelligence/1140
U2 - 10.4018/IJOCI.2018040103
DO - 10.4018/IJOCI.2018040103
M3 - Article
SN - 1947-9344
VL - 8
JO - International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)
JF - International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI)
IS - 2
ER -