Foundations of Hardware-Software Leakage Contracts

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Jan Reineke)

Summary by Cyber Security News16 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.20754v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Microarchitectural attacks such as Spectre and Meltdown undermine security by exploiting software-visible side effects of microarchitectural optimizations like caches and speculative execution. To use modern hardware securely, programmers must take into account the security implications of these optimizations.

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