Just back from RAID 2025 (International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses) on the Gold Coast! 🇦🇺

I had the opportunity to present our paper, Zebrafix: Mitigating Memory-Centric Side-Channel Leakage via Interleaving (with @janw and Thomas Eisenbarth). Leakages from ciphertext side-channels or silent store suppression can leak secrets even from constant-time code. We show how Zebrafix stops this by adding freshness to memory writes through interleaving 🦓

It was a great conference, filled with inspiring keynotes and talks. I've also come away with many wonderful new connections. A definite highlight was the social event at Sea World! Networking alongside dolphins, seals, and rollercoasters is certainly a unique experience 🐬🎢

Big thanks to the organizers and everyone involved!

Had a great time at the 1st uASC (Microarchitecture Security Conference) last week. I also had the opportunity to give a talk on software-based mitigations against memory-centric side-channels, and I appreciate the insightful questions and feedback. The discussions and presentations were really inspiring, and it was valuable to exchange ideas with so many brilliant researchers.

A big thank you to the organizers for putting together such a well-run event! Looking forward to the next edition 😊

📷: Jonas Juffinger

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