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Düppel: Retrofitting commodity operating systems to mitigate cache side channels in the cloud

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Zhang, Y; Reiter, MK
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
December 9, 2013

This paper presents the design, implementation and evaluation of a system called Düppel that enables a tenant virtual machine to defend itself from cache-based side-channel attacks in public clouds. Düppel includes defenses for time-shared caches such as per-core L1 and L2 caches. Experiments in the lab and on public clouds show that Düppel effectively obfuscates timing signals available to an attacker VM via these caches and incurs modest performance overheads (at most 7% and usually much less) in the common case of no side-channel attacks. Moreover, Düppel requires no changes to hypervisors or support from cloud operators. © 2013 ACM.

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December 9, 2013

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Zhang, Y., & Reiter, M. K. (2013). Düppel: Retrofitting commodity operating systems to mitigate cache side channels in the cloud. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 827–837). https://doi.org/10.1145/2508859.2516741
Zhang, Y., and M. K. Reiter. “Düppel: Retrofitting commodity operating systems to mitigate cache side channels in the cloud.” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 827–37, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1145/2508859.2516741.
Zhang Y, Reiter MK. Düppel: Retrofitting commodity operating systems to mitigate cache side channels in the cloud. In: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2013. p. 827–37.
Zhang, Y., and M. K. Reiter. “Düppel: Retrofitting commodity operating systems to mitigate cache side channels in the cloud.” Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2013, pp. 827–37. Scopus, doi:10.1145/2508859.2516741.
Zhang Y, Reiter MK. Düppel: Retrofitting commodity operating systems to mitigate cache side channels in the cloud. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. 2013. p. 827–837.

Published In

Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security

DOI

ISSN

1543-7221

Publication Date

December 9, 2013

Start / End Page

827 / 837