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Security Evaluation of Thermal Covert-channels on SmartSSDs. (arXiv:2305.09115v1 [cs.CR])
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Continued expansion of cloud computing offerings now includes SmartSSDs. A
SmartSSD is a solid-state disk (SSD) augmented with an FPGA. Through public
cloud providers, it is now possible to rent on-demand virtual machines enabled
with SmartSSDs. Because of the FPGA component of the SmartSSD, cloud users who
access the SmartSSD can instantiate custom circuits within the FPGA. This
includes possibly malicious circuits for measurement of power and temperature.
Normally, cloud users have no remote access to power and temperature data, …
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