Matej Bölcskei has received an ETH medal for his master’s thesis on automatic RTL bug injection which resulted in a paper at USENIX Security. The ETH medal is awarded to the very top master theses every year. Congratulations!
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Distinguished paper award for Post-Barrier Spectre!
A little while a go we wrote a paper about security problems in the microcode implementation and application of the IBPB instruction which acts as an important mechanism to mitigate different Spectre variants. As part of this work, we also built the first-ever cross-process Spectre attack that works on a real target. Furthermore, we showed…