DIALED: Data Integrity Attestation for Low-end Embedded Devices

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العنوان: DIALED: Data Integrity Attestation for Low-end Embedded Devices
المؤلفون: Nunes, Ivan De Oliveira, Jakkamsetti, Sashidhar, Tsudik, Gene
سنة النشر: 2021
المجموعة: Computer Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Computer Science - Cryptography and Security, Computer Science - Hardware Architecture
الوصف: Verifying integrity of software execution in low-end micro-controller units (MCUs) is a well-known open problem. The central challenge is how to securely detect software exploits with minimal overhead, since these MCUs are designed for low cost, low energy and small size. Some recent work yielded inexpensive hardware/software co-designs for remotely verifying code and execution integrity. In particular, a means of detecting unauthorized code modifications and control-flow attacks were proposed, referred to as Remote Attestation (RA) and Control-Flow Attestation (CFA), respectively. Despite this progress, detection of data-only attacks remains elusive. Such attacks exploit software vulnerabilities to corrupt intermediate computation results stored in data memory, changing neither the program code nor its control flow. Motivated by lack of any current techniques (for low-end MCUs) that detect these attacks, in this paper we propose, implement and evaluate DIALED, the first Data-Flow Attestation (DFA) technique applicable to the most resource-constrained embedded devices (e.g., TI MSP430). DIALED works in tandem with a companion CFA scheme to detect all (currently known) types of runtime software exploits at fairly low cost.
Comment: 6 pages, to be published in DAC 2021
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2103.12928
رقم الانضمام: edsarx.2103.12928
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv