ANR SCAMA

Secure-by-Design Computing Against Microarchitectural Attacks

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Security failure in computing systems has become one of today’s biggest concern. The primary threat is the fact that modern computing architectures from computational optimizations to storage elements and interfaces, from end-user applications to the operating system and hypervisor, and from microarchitecture to underlying hardware may hide unexpected vulnerabilities. This concern is gaining further momentum, with the spectacular aggressiveness of Spectre, Meltdown, and ZombieLoad vulnerabilities. They demonstrate that even hardware, which is often considered as an abstract layer that behaves correctly by executing instructions and giving a logically correct output, is leaking critical information as a side effect of software implementation and execution. Even worse, the many undocumented parts of modern architectures open doors for yet undescribed side-channel attacks. This proposal tackles the problem of these vulnerabilities at the intersection of software and hardware to propose secure-by-design computing, where we strike a balance between security and hard-earned performance benefits.

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March 8, 2024 Project kickoff The ANR SCAMA project met for the first time at Telecom Paris, Palaiseau. Time to remember what we will do in this project and what could be the first interactions between partners.

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Publications

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October 2024 Muhammad Awais presented his “Decoding Attack Behaviors by Analyzing Patterns in Instruction-Based Attacks using gem5” paper at RSP'24 !

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Team

LTCI Maria Mushtaq Associate professor (Project leader) Muhammad Awais PhD student (April 2024 - …) Lirida Naviner Professor Guillaume Duc Associate professor Lab-STICC Pascal Cotret Associate professor Oussama Elmnaouri PhD student (November 2024 - …) Vianney Lapôtre Associate professor, HDR Guy Gogniat Professor Loïc Lagadec Professor Hubert-Curien Brice Colombier Associate professor Jorge Andres Hoyos Ramirez PhD student (November 2024 - …) Lilian Bossuet Professor LIRMM Florent Bruguier Associate professor Pascal Benoît Associate professor

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