"MIT's Innovative Approach to Assessing Cybersecurity Techniques"

Researchers at MIT have developed a framework called Metior to quantitatively evaluate the effectiveness of different obfuscation schemes in cybersecurity. Obfuscation schemes aim to limit an attacker's ability to learn secret information, but complete blocking of side-channel attacks is often computationally expensive. Metior allows engineers to study how different victim programs, attacker strategies, and obfuscation scheme configurations affect the amount of sensitive information leaked. The framework could be used in the early chip design process to evaluate the effectiveness of multiple security schemes and determine the most promising architecture.