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Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024

Filed:

Dec. 26, 2020
Applicant:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Siddhartha Chhabra, Portland, OR (US);

John Sell, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/78 (2013.01); G06F 21/60 (2013.01); H04L 9/00 (2022.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/002 (2013.01); G06F 21/602 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 9/3242 (2013.01);
Abstract

Detailed herein are embodiments which allow for integrity protected access control to provide defense against deterministic software attacks. Software attacks such as rowhammer attacks which target the TD bit itself are defended against using cryptographic integrity which the data itself is protected by the TD-bit alone. As such, software is reduced to performing only non-deterministic attacks (e.g., random corruption), but all the deterministic attacks are defended against. Additionally, integrity-protected access control bits are protected against simple hardware attacks where the adversary with physical access to the machine can flip TD bits to get ciphertext access in software which can break confidentiality.


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