Deirdre Connolly¹ ²
A scheme originally intended for disk encryption, not for RAM
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"Please don't crash, please don't crash—"
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It worked!
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Protections were removed to improve performance at customer demand 😭
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Q: You believe these protections only got removed bc of performance?
A: Yes I do, we talked to the engineers, they were so upset and repeatedly saying "I told you so" etc
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Next up, 'Migrating a Silicon Root of Trust to Post-Quantum Crypto', presented by Jade Philipoom and Hien Pham
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Goal is to PQ secure boot chain
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Q: Masking?
A: Software masking techniques; random probing model, trying to find the best combo of masking gadgets systematically
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Next up, 'Chypnosis: Undervolting-based Static Side-channel Attacks', presented by Shahin Tajik
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AMD security advisories 😏
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Next up, 'Kerckhoff's Principle in Practice: Addressing Security by Obscurity in Secure Hardware', presented by Jan Jancar
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Next up, 'Encryption in the microarchitectural world', presented by Ping-Lun Wang
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We can construct weird machines that work across processor classes, despite small changes in microarchitectures
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END OF DAY 1
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DAY 2
Next up is 'Deploying Research:
On Building and Shipping an
Anonymous Whistleblowing System', presented by Daniel
Hugenroth
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Implemented and deployed in the Guardian app on iOS and Android
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Really want boring simple cryptography with few assumptions; used Rust bc strong typing enabled misuse-resistant API design, and performance came for free
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How do we bootstrap trust in the org key? It helps to be part of a long-trusted publication
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Secure elements are great tools...except they don't expose auth attempt counters, nor enforce timeouts (they are reserved for the operating system)
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Q: Diff from SecureDrop?
A: Focused on the first contact experience; using Tor is a red flag/signal; we don't support sending files, pivot elsewhere for that
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Work with actual UX researchers; in-person user testing;
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Speaking of SecureDrop, next up is 'SecureDrop Next Generation: Lessons from a Decade of Deployment', presented by Rowen Shane, Shannon Veitch
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Deployment/maintenance burden, physical security requirement, better encryption is available
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