SPECULATIVE EXECUTION ATTACK-RESISTANT CRYPTOSERVICES

The appearance of Meltdown/Spectre attacks exploiting the vulnerabilities in Intel pro cessors via misuse of speculative executions has destroyed confidence in the security of user’s con f idential data which includes cryptoservices secret parameters. The developed Meltdown/Spectre countermeasures demonstrated ineffectiveness in neutralizing the newly designed speculative execution attacks. Paper highlights a fundamental solution of specified issue via Intel ME technolo gy usage. The dedicated Intel ME processor is immune to Meltdown/Spectre attacks, which makes it effective to be used as a cryptoprocessor. Implementation of the proposed approach can be achieved through the usage of Intel Dynamic Application Loader (Intel DAL) technology.