thesis/notes.md

Thesis notes

TU Graz Paper

• Enable strict memory permissions or virtualize kernel heap or kernel stack
• kernel allocator massaging (?)
• These defenses change mapping to fine-grained 4kB instead of 2MB
• 4kB TLB entries result in contention patterns observable via side channels
• leak page aligned object locations
• deduce sup-page granular objects (how?)
• intel CPU needed (8th-14th gen) (?)
• contact for hardware: Marković, A. (Aleksandar) a.markovic@vu.nl
• probably VM enough? check that