Analyzing The Security of The Cache Side Channel Defences With Attack Graphs

Abstract

Note that very limited work is proposed to analyze the security of defenses against the cache side channel attacks on micro-architecture. In this paper, we propose a model based method to generate a visual attack graph and analyze the security of micro-architecture security designs in the early stages of processor design. The experiments indicate that our method can identify the special attack paths that some common security designs fail to defend against and show them in an attack graph.