CPSC 538M 101 2021W

This course will give an overview of software-based side-channel attacks. We will study papers that describe side channels in resources, such as caches, memory, CPUs, GPUs, and network, and how attacks are designed to exploit the side channels. We will also study solutions to mitigate various side channels, which include techniques at the architecture, the OS, languages and compilers, and the application level.