The twelve papers in this special section focus on hardware security. This topic is becoming a significant challenge in modern computing systems. Recently discovered hardware vulnerabilities, such as Spectre and Meltdown, are striking evidence that today’s computing systems are untenable without deliberate consideration of the security aspects at the design time. The papers address various topics related to hardware security: secure-by-design architectures, secure speculative execution, secure system integration of untrusted chiplets, malware detection, program analysis using power side channels, architecture support for forensics, and efficient implementations of security modules.

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客座编辑对硬件安全特刊的介绍


本专题中的 12 篇论文重点关注硬件安全性。这个主题正在成为现代计算系统中的一个重大挑战。最近发现的硬件漏洞（例如 Spectre 和 Meltdown）是有力的证据，表明如果在设计时没有刻意考虑安全方面，当今的计算系统将无法维持。这些论文讨论了与硬件安全相关的各种主题：安全设计架构、安全推测执行、不受信任小芯片的安全系统集成、恶意软件检测、使用电源侧通道的程序分析、取证的架构支持以及安全模块的高效实现。