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IEEE SEED '21 Program

All times are in the Easter Time (ET) time zone.

September 20, 2021

Welcome by General and Program Chairs
(10:00 am - 10:10 am) -- Eastern Time (ET)

Keynote I
(10:15 am - 11:15 am) -- Eastern Time (ET)

"Analog Side Channels ≟ Sensor Modalities", Milos Prvulovic (Georgia Tech)

Moderator: Guru Venkataramani (GWU)

Session 1: “The eternal war of side channels”
(11:20 am - 12:30 pm) -- Eastern Time (ET)

Session chair: Wenjie Xiong (Facebook/Virginia Tech)

"Cloak & Co-locate: Adversarial Railroading of Resource Sharing-based Attacks on the Cloud", Hosein Mohammadi Makrani (UC Davis), Hossein Sayadi (California State University, Long Beach), Najmeh Nazari (UC Davis), Khaled N. Khasawneh, Avesta Sasan (George Mason University), Setareh Rafatirad, Houman Homayoun (UC Davis)

"Seeds of SEED: A Side-Channel Resilient Cache Skewed by a Linear Function over a Galois Field", Scott Constable, Thomas Unterluggauer (Intel Corp.)

"Seeds of SEED: R-SAW: New Side Channels Exploiting Read Asymmetry in MLC Phase Change Memories", Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy, Rickard Ewetz (University of Central Florida), Amro Awad (North Carolina State University), Fan Yao (University of Central Florida)

"Seeds of SEED: H2Cache: Building a Hybrid Randomized Cache Hierarchy for Mitigating Cache Side-Channel Attacks", Xingjian Zhang, Ziqi Yuan, Rui Chang, Yajin Zhou (Zhejiang University)

"Bespoke Cache Enclaves: Fine-Grained and Scalable Isolation from Cache Side-Channels via Flexible Set-Partitioning", Gururaj Saileshwar, Sanjay Kariyappa, Moinuddin Qureshi (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Session 2: “All good memories!”
(01:00 pm - 02:00 pm) -- Eastern Time (ET)

Session chair: Khaled Khasawneh (GMU)

"Performance-Enhanced Integrity Verification for Large Memories", Yanan Guo, Andrew Zigerelli (University of Pittsburgh), Yueqiang Cheng (NIO Security Research), Youtao Zhang, Jun Yang (University of Pittsburgh)

"Seeds of SEED: Efficient Access Pattern Obfuscation for Untrusted Hybrid Memory System", Yuezhi Che (Illinois Institute of Technology), Gang Liu (Hunan University), Rujia Wang (Illinois Institute of Technology)

"Seeds of SEED: H-CRAM: In-memory Homomorphic Search Accelerator using Spintronic Computational RAM", Husrev Cilasun, Salonik Resch, Zamshed I. Chowdhury, Masoud Zabihi, Zhengyang Zhao, Thomas Peterson, Jian-Ping Wang, Sachin Sapatnekar, Ulya Karpuzcu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

"Seeds of SEED: NMT-Stroke: Diverting Neural Machine Translation through Hardware-based Faults", Kunbei Cai, Md Hafizul Islam Chowdhuryy (University of Central Florida), Zhenkai Zhang (Clemson University), Fan Yao (University of Central Florida)

"Seeds of SEED: New Security Challenges of Persistent Memory", Naveed Ul Mustafa (University of Central Florida), Yuanchao Xu, Xipeng Shen (North Carolina State University), Yan Solihin (University of Central Florida)

Session 3: “To speculate or not, that is the question!”
(02:00 pm - 03:00 pm) -- Eastern Time (ET)

Session chair: Fan Yao (UCF)

"Do Not Predict - Recompute! How Value Recomputation Can Truly Boost the Performance of Invisible Speculation", Christos Sakalis (Uppsala University), Zamshed Chowdhury (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Shayne Wadle (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Ismail Akturk (University of Missouri, Columbia), Alberto Ros (University of Murcia), Magnus Själander (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Stefanos Kaxiras (Uppsala University), Ulya Karpuzcu (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)

"Seeds of SEED: Preventing Priority Inversion in Instruction Scheduling to Disrupt Speculative Interference", Christos Sakalis (Uppsala University), Magnus Själander (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Stefanos Kaxiras (Uppsala University)

"SoK: Hardware Defenses Against Speculative Execution Attacks", Guangyuan Hu, Zecheng He, Ruby Lee (Princeton University)

"WIP: "It's a trap!" How Speculation Invariance Can Be Abused with Forward Speculative Interference", Pavlos Aimoniotis, Christos Sakalis (Uppsala University), Magnus Själander (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), Stefanos Kaxiras (Uppsala University)

September 21, 2021

 

Welcome by General and Program Chairs
(10:00 am - 10:05 am) -- Eastern Time (ET)

Keynote II
(10:05 am - 11:05 am) -- Eastern Time (ET)

"Promises Made, but Not Kept? 
The Struggle and Future of Trusted Computing", Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Moderator: Yinqian Zhang (SUSTech)

Session 4: Roundtable: “All roads lead to privacy-enhanced computing”
(11:10 am - 12:40 pm) -- Eastern Time (ET)

Moderator: Nader Sehatbaksh (UCLA)

"Security Analysis of Confidential-Compute Instruction Set Architecture for Virtualized Workloads", Ravi Sahita, Dror Caspi, Barry Huntley, Vincent Scarlata, Baruch Chaikin, Siddhartha Chhabra, Arie Aharon, Ido Ouziel (Intel Corp.)

"Confidential Computing: A Brave New World", Dominic P. Mulligan, Gustavo Petri, Nick Spinale, Gareth Stockwell and Hugo J. M. Vincent (Arm Ltd)

"VIP-Bench: A Benchmark Suite for Evaluating Privacy-Enhanced Computation Frameworks", Lauren Biernacki (University of Michigan); Meron Zerihun Demissie, Kidus Birkayehu Workneh, Galane Basha Namomsa, Plato Gebremedhin (Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Addis Ababa University); Fitsum Assamnew Andargie (Addis Ababa University, University of Michigan); Brandon Reagen (New York University); Todd Austin (University of Michigan / Agita Labs)

"Context-Aware Privacy-Optimizing Address Tracing", Deeksha Dangwal, Zhizhou Zhang (UC Santa Barbara), Jedidiah R. Crandall (Arizona State University/Breakpointing Bad), Tim Sherwood (UC Santa Barbara)

"WiP: Near-Data Processing over Ciphertext", Wenjie Xiong (Facebook), Liu Ke (Facebook/ Washington University in St Louis), Peter Tang, Edward Suh (Facebook), Xuan Zhang (Washington University in St. Louis), Hsien-Hsin S. Lee (Facebook AI Research)

Session 5: “Memory safety - Does it need to be HARD?”
(01:10 pm – 2:00 pm) -- Eastern Time (ET)

Session chair: Paul Gazzillo (UCF)

"EPI: Efficient Pointer Integrity For Securing Embedded Systems", Mohamed Tarek Ibn Ziad, Miguel Arroyo, Evgeny Manzhosov (Columbia University), Vasileios P. Kemerlis (Brown University), Simha Sethumadhavan (Columbia University/Chip Scan)

"Track Conventions, Not Attack Signatures: Fortifying X86 ABI and System Call Interfaces to Mitigate Code Reuse Attacks", Sarp Ozdemir, Rutvik Saptarshi, Aravind Prakash, Dmitry Ponomarev (Binghamton University)

"WiP: Securing Resource-Constrained Processors with Name Confusion", Mohamed Tarek Ibn Ziad, Miguel Arroyo, Evgeny Manzhosov (Columbia University) , Vasileios P. Kemerlis (Brown University), Simha Sethumadhavan (Columbia University/Chip Scan)

Session 6: “What’s in store for secure execution environments?”
(02:00 pm - 03:00 pm) -- Eastern Time (ET)

Session chair: Naveed Ul Mustafa (UCF)

"JAXED: Reverse Engineering DNN Architectures Leveraging JIT GEMM Libraries", Malith Jayaweera, Kaustubh Shivdikar, Yanzhi Wang, David Kaeli (Northeastern University)

"Seeds of SEED: Characterizing Enclave-level Parallelism in Secure Multicore Processors", Brandon D'Agostino, Omer Khan (University of Connecticut)

"Seeds of SEED: Building and Verifying Foundationally Isolated Hardware Architectures", Jason Oberg (Tortuga Logic, Inc.)

"Implementing a Security Architecture for Safety-Critical Railway Infrastructure", Michael Eckel, Don Kuzhiyelil, Christoph Krauss, Maria Zhdanova, Stefan Katzenbeisser, Jasmin Cosic, Matthias Drodt, Jean-Jacques Pitrolle

Closing remarks
(3:00pm) -- Eastern Time (ET)