Rebooting Computers to Avoid Meltdown and Spectre

Conte, Thomas M.; Debenedictis, Erik P.; Mendelson, Avi; Milojicic, Dejan

doi:10.1109/MC.2018.2141022

Title: Rebooting Computers to Avoid Meltdown and Spectre

Abstract

Security vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre demonstrate how chip complexity grew faster than our ability to manage unintended consequences. Here, attention to security from the outset should be part of the rememdy, yet complexity must be controlled at a more fundamental level.

Authors:

Conte, Thomas M. ^[1]; Debenedictis, Erik P. ^[2]; Mendelson, Avi ^[3]; Milojicic, Dejan ^[4]

Georgia Inst. of Technology, Atlanta, GA (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA (United States)

Publication Date:: 2018-04-27

Research Org.:: Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

OSTI Identifier:: 1459993

Report Number(s):: SAND2018-6948J
Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9162; 665142

Grant/Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Computer

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 51; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 0018-9162

Publisher:: IEEE

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; rebooting computing; meltdown; spectre; security; complexity; hardware; state machine abstraction; hackers

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                    Conte, Thomas M., Debenedictis, Erik P., Mendelson, Avi, and Milojicic, Dejan. Rebooting Computers to Avoid Meltdown and Spectre.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Conte, Thomas M., Debenedictis, Erik P., Mendelson, Avi, & Milojicic, Dejan. Rebooting Computers to Avoid Meltdown and Spectre.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.2141022

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                    Conte, Thomas M., Debenedictis, Erik P., Mendelson, Avi, and Milojicic, Dejan. Fri .  
"Rebooting Computers to Avoid Meltdown and Spectre".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.2141022.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1459993.

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  title        = {Rebooting Computers to Avoid Meltdown and Spectre},

  author       = {Conte, Thomas M. and Debenedictis, Erik P. and Mendelson, Avi and Milojicic, Dejan},

  abstractNote = {Security vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre demonstrate how chip complexity grew faster than our ability to manage unintended consequences. Here, attention to security from the outset should be part of the rememdy, yet complexity must be controlled at a more fundamental level.},

  doi          = {10.1109/MC.2018.2141022},

  journal      = {Computer},

  number       = 4,

  volume       = 51,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2018},

  month        = {4}

}

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Figure 1.: Microprocessors follow the state machine abstraction at two levels. They are state machines that advance at the rate of the system clock and state machines that advance at the rate of instruction processing. Prior to the advent of cache memory, the two state machines advanced in time atmore »

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