"MIT's Cybersecurity Metior: Safeguarding Against Side-Channel Attacks"

MIT researchers have developed a framework called Metior that quantitatively evaluates the effectiveness of obfuscation schemes used to protect against side-channel attacks. Metior allows engineers to analyze how different victim programs, attacker strategies, and obfuscation scheme configurations affect the amount of sensitive information that is leaked. The framework aims to aid in the selection of effective security strategies during the chip design process, helping engineers evaluate the effectiveness of multiple security schemes and determine the most promising architecture. The researchers hope that Metior will inspire the development of microarchitectural security evaluation methodologies that can be applied early in the chip design process.