US Patent Issued to Intel on May 27 for "Memory address bus protection for increased resilience against hardware replay attacks and memory access pattern leakage" (Oregon, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,460, issued on May 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory address bus protection for increased resilience against hardware replay attacks and memory access pattern leakage" was invented by Siddhartha Chhabra (Portland, Ore.) and Abhishek Basak (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detailed herein are embodiments utilizing a cryptographically authenticated address bus (CAAB) protection that uses an intelligent memory design to prevent attacks on the address bus without detection and eliminate the memory bus as an observability surface for an attacker to do access pattern analysis. Embodiments detailed ...