Hardware Security Lab
Research in secure hardware design, microarchitectural side-channel attacks, and applied cryptography, at Georgia Institute of Technology.
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We are looking for excellent students interested in working with us. If that is you, drop us a line at genkin@gatech.edu.
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Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS)
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Load Value Injection (LVI)
Our Awards 🏆
A big thanks to the following venues for recognizing our work:- ACM CCS 2025 Distinguished Paper Award (WireTap)
- IEEE S&P 2025 (Oakland) Distinguished Paper Award (SLAP)
- ACM CCS 2024 Distinguished Paper Award (Side Channel Testing of Future Architectures)
- German IT Security 2024 Prize (CryptOpt)
- Black Hat 2024 Pwnie Award for Best Cryptographic Attack (GoFetch)
- ACM PLDI 2023 Best Paper Award (CryptOpt)
- ACM CCS 2022 Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (When Frodo Flips)
- NSA's Best Scientific Cybersecurity Competition 2020 Distinguished Paper Award (Spectre)
- NSA's Best Scientific Cybersecurity Competition 2019 Honorable Mention (Meltdown)
- IEEE S&P 2019 (Oakland) Distinguished Paper Award (Spectre)
- IEEE 2019 Micro Top Pick (Foreshadow)
- Black 2018 Hat Pwnie Award for Most Innovative Research (Spectre+Meltdown)
- Black 2018 Hat Pwnie Award for Best Privilege Escalation Bug (Spectre+Meltdown)
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