Constant-time foundations for the new spectre era
The work
| Authors | Sunjay Cauligi; Craig Disselkoen; Klaus v. Gleissenthall; Dean Michael Tullsen; Deian Stefan; Tamara Rezk; Gilles Barthe |
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| Editors | |
| Type | misc |
| Year | 2020 |
| Citekey | cauligi2020constanttime |
Where it appeared
| Published in | ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) |
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| Pages | 913--926 |
Identifiers
| DOI | 10.1145/3385412.3385970 |
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| OpenAlex | W3020825203 |
Access
| Landing page | https://doi.org/10.1145/3385412.3385970 |
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| Free full text | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3385412.3385970 |
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Abstract
The constant-time discipline is a software-based countermeasure used for protecting high assurance cryptographic implementations against timing side-channel attacks. Constant-time is effective (it protects against many known attacks), rigorous (it can be formalized using program semantics), and amenable to automated verification. Yet, the advent of micro-architectural attacks makes constant-time as it exists today far less useful.
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Cite it as
@misc{cauligi2020constanttime,
title = {Constant-time foundations for the new spectre era},
author = {Sunjay Cauligi and Craig Disselkoen and Klaus v. Gleissenthall and Dean Michael Tullsen and Deian Stefan and Tamara Rezk and Gilles Barthe},
year = {2020},
journal = {ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI)},
pages = {913--926},
doi = {10.1145/3385412.3385970},
}
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