Security implications of GPUs
Public presentation by Charalampos Stylianopoulos
on Wed. 26 April 2017 at 10:00-12:00 in room EDIT 3364
GPUs have become popular computing platforms for a wide spectrum of applications, offering promising acceleration capabilities through unique hardware features. In the realm of security, GPUs have had dual use: both as means to increase systems security and as a source of vulnerabilities to compromise systems. We summarise two recent results in the field: PixelVault, a system that uses a GPU to protect cryptographic keys, as well as work that exploits GPU vulnerabilities to inspect user's data.
- Introductory papers
- Zhu et. al: Understanding The Security of Discrete GPUs (GPGPU-2017) pages 1-5,9-10
Advanced papers
PixelVault: Using GPUs for Securing Cryptographic Operations (CSS 2014)
Stealing Webpages Rendered on Your Browser by Exploiting GPU Vulnerabilities (S&P 2014)
