A Note On Side-Channels Resulting From Dynamic Compilation

D.  Page

Paper 2006/349

A Note On Side-Channels Resulting From Dynamic Compilation

D. Page

Abstract

Dynamic compilation systems are of fundamental importance to high performance execution of interpreted languages such as Java. These systems analyse the performance of an application at run-time and aggressively re-compile and optimise code which is deemed critical to performance. However, the premise that the code executed is not the same code as written by the programmer raises a number of important security concerns. In this paper we examine the specific problem that dynamic compilation, through transformation of the code, may introduce side-channel vulnerabilities where before there were none.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF PS
Category: Implementation
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Unknown where it was published
Keywords: side-channels compilers
Contact author(s): page @ cs bris ac uk
History: 2006-10-20: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2006/349
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2006/349,
      author = {D.  Page},
      title = {A Note On Side-Channels Resulting From Dynamic Compilation},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2006/349},
      year = {2006},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2006/349}
}