Reproducible Research in Micro-architecture Security (and Beyond): from Paper to Artifact Evaluation

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Presented at Pass the SALT 2023 by

Clémentine Maurice

Reproducible research is generally speaking a good idea we all agree on, but can be a bit of a nightmare when dealing with hardware --, actually, even software. In this presentation, I will talk about reproducibility in the context of academic security,, more precisely the reproducibility of attacks on micro-architecture. In a first part, we will see the limits of "just sharing code" in terms of reproducible research. In a second part, we will explore the good, the bad,, the ugly of trying to reproduce micro-architectural attacks. Finally, we will discuss a great initiative of academic security conferences: artifact evaluation.