Complexity Killed Security
summary
Shows concrete results: reverse‑engineered DRAM mappings via timing side‑channel and used rowhammer techniques to flip bits across rows; demonstrates that MSR 0x150 undervolting (Plundervolt) induces exploitable faults by dropping CPU voltage until deterministic faults appear; measures address‑translation timing to infer page table behavior; introduces load value injection (LVI) turns Meltdown into an injection primitive and provides working PoCs and measurements, arguing hardware/software complexity causes these emergent, repeatable vulnerabilities.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:54Keynote Speaker
- 3:02Complexity Killed Security
- 5:30The Modern Internet
- 6:49DRAM Modules
- 7:24Side Channels
- 11:21Address Translation
- 12:35Would Open Solve
- 14:56Security Properties
- 16:15Complexity
- 17:05Example
- 19:03Moores Law
- 20:39The Solution
- 21:54Hardware Complexity
- 23:01Software Complexity
- 23:34The Sciences of the Artificial
- 26:15Trailer
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