Software-based Microarchitectural Attacks

This project is a historical artifact linked to the seminal 2017 survey paper by the Graz University of Technology team (Lipp, Gruss, et al.), who were instrumental in discovering Meltdown and Spectre. While the research itself was a 'breakthrough' that redefined hardware security, this specific repository is a 'ghost' with 0 stars and no activity in nearly a decade. Its defensibility is minimal because it functions primarily as a static reference for researchers; the code is easily reproducible based on the published paper. Frontier labs (OpenAI/Google) have no incentive to compete here as this is a niche academic security domain. The displacement horizon is short not because the field is dead, but because modern CPU mitigations (KPTI, retpolines) and newer attack vectors (Downfall, Zenbleed, Inception) have rendered these specific 2017-era PoCs largely obsolete in production environments. Competitively, it is eclipsed by more active security research frameworks like 'IAIK/meltdown' or 'google/safeside'.