Architectural support for improving security and performance of memory sub-systems

Architecture;Security;GCM;Memory;Encryption;Authentication

Yan, Chenyu ; Computing

University:Georgia Institute of Technology

Department:Computing

关键词: Architecture;    Security;    GCM;    Memory;    Encryption;    Authentication;   

Others  :  https://smartech.gatech.edu/bitstream/1853/26663/1/yan_chenyu_200812_phd.pdf

美国|英语

来源: SMARTech Repository

【 摘 要 】

This thesis explores architectural level optimizations to make secure systems more efficient, secure and affordable. It extends prior work for secure architecture in several areas.It proposes a new combined memory encryption and authentication scheme which uses very small on-chip storage area and incurs much less performance overhead compared with prior work. In addition, the thesis studies the issues of applying architectural support for data security to distributed shared memory systems. It presents a scheme which is scalable with large-scale systems and only introduces negligible performance overhead for confidentiality and integrity protection. Furthermore, the thesis also investigates another source of reducing performance overhead in secure systems through optimizing on-chip caching schemes and minimizing off-chip communications.