Speculative Taint Tracking (STT): A Comprehensive Protection for Speculatively Accessed Data.

Speculative execution attacks present an enormous security threat, capable of reading arbitrary program data under malicious speculation, and later exfiltrating that data over microarchitectural covert channels. This paper proposes speculative taint tracking (STT), a high security and high performan...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 12; pp. 105 - 113
Main Authors:	Jiyong Yu, Mengjia Yan, Khyzha, Artem, Morrison, Adam, Torrellas, Josep, Fletcher, Christopher W.
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Dec2021
Subjects:	Computer security Data protection Malware prevention Computer architecture Computer performance
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