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Exploiting Hidden Resource Contention in Selective Speculation Defenses

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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 and newly exposed gaps at moderate performance overhead.

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