Hardware-Efficient Secure Cache Design

An overview of the MAYA cache design

Guide: Prof. Biswabandan Panda

MIRAGE is a secure fully-associative last-level cache design which guarantees complete security against eviction-based side-channel attacks, but at a hefty hardware overhead of 17%. We propose MAYA, which guarantees the same level of security, and at no hardware overhead compared to a non-secure baseline. We are also able to save around 6% in terms of energy and area compared to the baseline.