Paul Dabrowski, William Healey, Karthik Pattabiraman, Shelley Chen, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and
Ravishankar K. Iyer, Workshop on Dependable and Secure Nanocomputing (WDSN), 2008.
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Abstract: We present an architectural solution that provides trustworthy execution of C code that computes critical data, in spite of potential hardware and software vulnerabilities. The technique uses both static compiler-based analysis to generate a signature for an application, or operating system, and dynamic hardware/software signature checking. A prototype implementation of the hardware on a soft processor within an FPGA incurs no performance overhead and about 4% chip area overhead, while the software portion of the technique adds between 1% and 69% performance overhead in our test applications, depending on the selection of critical data.
