Mastik: A Micro-Architectural Side-Channel Toolkit

Welcome to the Mastik Web page.

Mastik is a toolkit that aims to provide robust implementations of side-channel attack techniques. The current version, code name Aye Aye Cap'n, is available for download. It contains implementations of six side channel attacks:

• Prime+Probe on the L1 data cache
• Prime+Probe on the L1 instruction cache
• Prime+Probe on the Last-Level Cache
• Flush+Reload
• Flush+Flush (new in 0.02)
• Performance degradation attack (new in 0.02).

New in Version 0.02

• Two new attacks
• Support for reading loader symbols and DWARF line numbers
• FR-trace: A command-line utility for mounting a Flush+Reload attacks
• autoconf configuration script

Download
Mastik version 0.02 Aye Aye Cap'n

Documentation
Mastik: A Micro-Architectural Side-Channel Toolkit

Presentations

• CHES 2016 rump session presentation: Reducing Piracy on the High Seas.
• CHES 2016 tutorial: Microarchitectural Side-Channel Attacks, part 1 and part 2.

Contact
For any questions, concerns or legal threats please contact Yuval Yarom yval@cs.adelaide.edu.au