I am pleased to announce the latest title in Morgan & Claypool’s series on Computer Architecture:
Principles of Secure Processor Architecture Design
Jakub Szefer, Yale
University
Paperback ISBN: 9781681730011
eBook ISBN: 9781681730028
Hardcover ISBN: 9781681734040
October 2018, 173 pages
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Abstract:
With growing
interest in computer security and the protection of the code and data which
execute on commodity computers, the amount of hardware security features in
today’s processors has increased significantly over the recent years. No longer
of just academic interest, security features inside processors have been
embraced by industry as well, with a number of commercial secure processor
architectures available today. This book aims to give readers insights into the
principles behind the design of academic and commercial secure processor
architectures. Secure processor architecture research is concerned with
exploring and designing hardware features inside computer processors, features
which can help protect confidentiality and integrity of the code and data
executing on the processor. Unlike traditional processor architecture research
that focuses on performance, efficiency, and energy as the first-order design
objectives, secure processor architecture design has security as the
first-order design objective (while still keeping the others as important
design aspects that need to be considered).
This book aims
to present the different challenges of secure processor architecture design to
graduate students interested in research on architecture and hardware security
and computer architects working in industry interested in adding security
features to their designs. It aims to educate readers about how the different
challenges have been solved in the past and what are the best practices, i.e.,
the principles, for design of new secure processor architectures. Based on the
careful review of past work by many computer architects and security
researchers, readers also will come to know the five basic principles needed
for secure processor architecture design. The book also presents existing
research challenges and potential new research directions. Finally, this book
presents numerous design suggestions, as well as discusses pitfalls and fallacies
that designers should avoid.
Table of Contents: Preface / Acknowledgments
/ Introduction / Basic Computer Security Concepts / Secure Processor
Architectures / Trusted Execution Environments / Hardware Root of Trust /
Memory Protections / Multiprocessor and Many-Core Protections / Side-Channel
Threats and Protections / Security Verification of Processor Architectures /
Principles of Secure Processor Architecture Design / Bibliography / Online
Resources / Author’s Biography
Series: Synthesis Lectures on Computer
Architecture
Editor: Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University
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