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Catherine Easdon
dblp:303/6604
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2022
0009-0001-7070-5589ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Security and privacy · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
2 papers |
Hardware security and side channels · 94% Cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis · 6% | |
| Computer architecture, parallel and distributed computing, and storage systems
1 paper |
Processor architecture and microarchitecture · 100% |
Topics — the 7 heaviest of 7, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Hardware security and side channels
microarchitectural attacks |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Rapid Prototyping for Microarchitectural Attacks · USENIX Security Symposium 2022 |
Processor architecture and microarchitecture
microarchitectural security |
0.6 | 1 | 2022 | Rapid Prototyping for Microarchitectural Attacks · USENIX Security Symposium 2022 |
Hardware security and side channels › side-channel attack
power analysis |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | PLATYPUS: Software-based Power Side-Channel Attacks on x86 · SP 2021 |
Hardware security and side channels › trusted execution environments
SGX attacks |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | PLATYPUS: Software-based Power Side-Channel Attacks on x86 · SP 2021 |
Hardware security and side channels
side-channel attack |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | PLATYPUS: Software-based Power Side-Channel Attacks on x86 · SP 2021 |
Hardware security and side channels
trusted execution environments |
0.5 | 1 | 2021 | PLATYPUS: Software-based Power Side-Channel Attacks on x86 · SP 2021 |
Cryptographic primitives and cryptanalysis › key generation
key extraction |
0.1 | 1 | 2021 | PLATYPUS: Software-based Power Side-Channel Attacks on x86 · SP 2021 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
rapid prototyping · 1.1statistical analysis · 0.5covert channel · 0.5RAPL interface · 0.5
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Rapid Prototyping for Microarchitectural Attacks
Catherine Easdon, Michael Schwarz 0001, Martin Schwarzl, Daniel Gruss |
USENIX Security Symposium | 1 |
| 2021 | PLATYPUS: Software-based Power Side-Channel Attacks on x86abstractPower side-channel attacks exploit variations in power consumption to extract secrets from a device, e.g., cryptographic keys. Prior attacks typically required physical access to the target device and specialized equipment such as probes and a high-resolution oscilloscope.In this paper, we present PLATYPUS attacks, which are novel software-based power side-channel attacks on Intel server, desktop, and laptop CPUs. We exploit unprivileged access to the Intel Running Average Power Limit (RAPL) interface that exposes values directly correlated with power consumption, forming a low-resolution side channel.We show that with sufficient statistical evaluation, we can observe variations in power consumption, which distinguish different instructions and different Hamming weights of operands and memory loads. This enables us to not only monitor the control flow of applications but also to infer data and extract cryptographic keys. We demonstrate how an unprivileged attacker can leak AES-NI keys from Intel SGX and the Linux kernel, break kernel address-space layout randomization (KASLR), infer secret instruction streams, and establish a timing-independent covert channel. We also present a privileged attack on mbed TLS, utilizing precise execution control to recover RSA keys from an SGX enclave. We discuss countermeasures and show that mitigating these attacks in a privileged context is not trivial. Moritz Lipp, Andreas Kogler, David F. Oswald, Michael Schwarz 0001, Catherine Easdon, Claudio Canella, Daniel Gruss |
SP | 5 |