MITIGATION OF SPECULATIVE EXECUTION ATTACKS BY INTEL DAL TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION
A.S. Sokolov, A.Y. Chernov, A.S. Konoplev
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Annotation: The complexity of neutralization and the lack of a universal mitigation approach of speculative execution attacks allows potential malware to have an unauthorized access to data being processed by CPU. To provide the confidentiality of such data it`s processing should be transferred from CPU to a microprocessor operating in a trusted execution environment. Paper describes the approach of using Intel DAL technology, which allows to implement application in Intel ME subsystem, thus completely mitigate side channel speculative execution attacks.
Keywords: side-channel attacks, speculative execution, Meltdown, Spectre, Intel TEE, Intel ME, Intel DAL, cryptoservices
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