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Security Analysis of the Silver Bullet Technique for RowHammer Prevention

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arxiv 2106.07084 v2 pith:Q7CENBVH submitted 2021-06-13 cs.CR cs.AR

Security Analysis of the Silver Bullet Technique for RowHammer Prevention

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keywords bulletsilverrowhammerattacksconfigureddemonstrationimplementationprevention
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The purpose of this document is to study the security properties of the Silver Bullet algorithm against worst-case RowHammer attacks. We mathematically demonstrate that Silver Bullet, when properly configured and implemented in a DRAM chip, can securely prevent RowHammer attacks. The demonstration focuses on the most representative implementation of Silver Bullet, the patent claiming many implementation possibilities not covered in this demonstration. Our study concludes that Silver Bullet is a promising RowHammer prevention mechanism that can be configured to operate securely against RowHammer attacks at various efficiency-area tradeoff points, supporting relatively small hammer count values (e.g., 1000) and Silver Bullet table sizes (e.g., 1.06KB).

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