Exploiting Hidden Resource Contention in Selective Speculation Defenses
This work shows that several state-of-the-art selective-speculation defenses rest on shared assumptions that overlook important microarchitectural behaviors, leaving systematic blind spots that admit secret-dependent reservation-station (RS) contention, and proposes strengthened STT mechanisms that close both existing...
Xiaoyu Cheng, F. Tong, Zhen-Yu Lei et al.
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