Demystifying Attestation in Intel Trust Domain Extensions via Formal Verification

Formal Verification at Intel

Demystifying Intel Branch Predictors

Improvement of branch predictors has been one of the focal points of computer architecture research during the last decade, ranging from two-level predictors to complex hybrid mechanisms. Most research efforts try to use real, already implemented, branch predictor sizes and organizations for comparison and evaluation. Yet, little is known about exact predictor implementation in Intel processors...

Formal Verification of Embedded Systems for Remote Attestation

Embedded systems are increasingly pervasive, interdependent and in many cases critical to our every day life and safety. As such devices are more and more subject to attacks, new protection mechanisms are needed to provide the required resilience and dependency at low cost. Remote attestation (RA) is a software-hardware mechanism that securely checks the internal state of remote embedded device...

Fifteen Years of Formal Property Verification in Intel

Model checking technologies have been applied to hardware verification in the last 15 years. Pioneering work has been conducted in Intel since 1990 using model checking technologies to build industrial hardware verification systems. This paper reviews the evolution and the success of these systems in Intel and in particular it summarizes the many challenges and learning that have resulted from ...

Attestation: Evidence and Trust

Attestation is the activity of making a claim about properties of a target by supplying evidence to an appraiser. An open-ended framework for attestation is desirable for safe support to sensitive or high-value activities on heterogeneous networks. We identify five central principles to guide development of attestation systems. We argue that (i) attestation must be able to deliver temporally fr...