HC30-K1: Spectre/Meltdown

Keynote 1, Hot Chips 30 (2018), Monday, August 20, 2018

This "keynote talk" is actually a special session consisting of four short talks from various experts discussing the history of and defenses against "side channel" data leakage attacks like Spectre and Meltdown, from the points of view of people working in both software and hardware. At the end, our experts joined together for a group Q&A session.

The era of security: Introduction
John Hennessy, Stanford/Google

Spectre/Meltdown: The Project Zero/Reptoline Journey
Paul Turner, Google

Exploiting Modern Microarchitectures: Implications for SW
Jon Masters, Red Hat

Exploiting Modern Microarchitectures: Implications for Computer Architects
Mark Hill, U Wisconsin-Madison

Panel Q & A