Retpoline technique for mitigating spectre attack

• Main Authors: Mohd Fadzil, Abdul Kadir, Ahmad Faisal Amri, Abidin @ Bharun, Fauziah, Ab. Wahab, Mohamad Afendee, Mohamed, Wong, Jinkee
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English; English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: T Technology (General); TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/2593/1/FH03-FIK-20-36658.pdf; http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/2593/2/FH03-FIK-19-28007.pdf; http://eprints.unisza.edu.my/2593/

The Speculative execution (Spectre) is a chip attempting to predict the future to improve the system performance which involves multiple logical branches. It will start working out the math for all those branches before the program even has to decide between them. Normally, it works together with...