Publications

Conference Publications

1. [DSN-22] STBPU: A Reasonably Secure Branch Prediction Unit Tao Zhang, Timothy Lesch, Kenneth Koltermann, Dmitry Evtyushkin. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks. Baltimore, Maryland, USA. June 2022. Acceptance rate: 18.70% (49/262)

2. [ASPLOS-21] Computing with Time: Microarchitectural Weird Machines Dmitry Evtyushkin, Thomas Benjamin, Jesse Elwell, Jeffrey A. Eitel, Angelo Sapello, Abhrajit Ghosh. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. April 2021. Acceptance rate: 18.84% (75/398) Distinguished papepr award: 8% (6/75)

3. [ASPLOS-20] Exploring Branch Predictors for Constructing Transient Execution Trojans
   Tao Zhang, Kenneth Koltermann, Dmitry Evtyushkin.
   International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2020.
   Acceptance rate: 17.9%

4. [USENIX-19] A Systematic Evaluation of Transient Execution Attacks and Defenses
   Claudio Canella, Jo Van Bulck, Michael Schwarz, Moritz Lipp, Benjamin von Berg, Philipp Ortner, Frank Piessens, Dmitry Evtyushkin, Daniel Gruss.
   28th USENIX Security Symposium, Santa Clara, California, USA, August 14-16, 2019
   Acceptance rate: 15.7%

5. [DAC-19] SafeSpec: Banishing the Spectre of a Meltdown with Leakage-Free Speculation
   Khaled N Khasawneh, Esmaeil Mohammadian Koruyeh, Chengyu Song, Dmitry Evtyushkin, Dmitry Ponomarev and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh.
   Design Automation Conference. Las Vegas, NV, June 2019.
   Acceptance rate: 24.8%

6. [ASPLOS-18] BranchScope: A New Side-Channel Attack on Directional Branch Predictor
   Dmitry Evtyushkin, Ryan Riley, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry Ponomarev
   International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems. Williamsburg, VA, March 2018.
   Acceptance rate: 17.5%

7. [ICCAD-17] Hardening Extended Memory Access Control Schemes with Self-Verified Address Spaces
   Jesse Elwell, Dmitry Evtyushkin, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Ryan Riley
   International Conference On Computer Aided Design. Irvine, CA, November 2017.

8. [ASIACCS-17] On the Detection of Kernel-Level Rootkits Using Hardware Performance Counters
   Baljit Singh, Dmitry Evtyushkin, Jesse Elwell, Ryan Riley and Iliano Cervesato.
   12th ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2017.
   Acceptance rate: 20.3%

9. [CCS-16] Covert Channels through Random Number Generator: Mechanisms, Capacity Estimation and Mitigations
   Dmitry Evtyushkin, Dmitry Ponomarev.
   23rdACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, Vienna, Austria, October 2016.
   Acceptance rate: 16.4%

10. [MICRO-16] Jump over ASLR: Attacking Branch Predictors to Bypass ASLR
    Dmitry Evtyushkin, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh.
    49th International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Taipei, October 2016.
    Acceptance rate: 21.5%

11. [HASP-15] Covert Channels Through Branch Predictors: A Feasibility Study
    Dmitry Evtyushkin, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh.
    4th Workshop on Hardware and Architecture Support for Security and Privary, held in conjunction with ISCA, Portland, OR, June 2015.

12. [MICRO-14] Iso-X: A Flexible Architecture for Hardware-Managed Isolated Execution
    Dmitry Evtyushkin, Jesse Elwell, Meltem Ozsoy, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Ryan Riley. 47th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Microarchitecture, Cambridge, UK, Dec 2014.
    Acceptance Rate: 19%

Journal Publications

1. [IEEE Spectrum] How the Spectre and Meltdown Hacks Really Worked
   Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Dmitry Ponomarev and Dmitry Evtyushkin.
   IEEE Spectrum 2019

2. [TDSC] Flexible Hardware-Managed Isolated Execution: Architecture, Software Support and Applications
   Dmitry Evtyushkin, Jesse Elwell, Meltem Ozsoy, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh, Ryan Riley. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing 2016.

3. [TACO] Understanding and Mitigating Covert Channels Through Branch Predictors
   Dmitry Evtyushkin, Dmitry Ponomarev, Nael Abu-Ghazaleh.
   ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization 2016.