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Understanding Side-Channel Attacks from Branch Prediction Risks

Calendar Nov 22, 2006 • User Avatar Anthony Pell
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Deep CPU pipelines paired with the CPU So far, typical targets of side-channel attacks have been mainly Smart Cards, cf. [CNK,Koc]. This is due to the ease of applying such attacks to smart cards. The measurements of sidechannel information on smart cards are almost