Reverse Engineering the Customized Pointer Authentication Hardware Implementation on Apple M1
Zechao CaiWenbo ShenYu WangYutian Yang watchd0gJiaxun Zhu Sean
Engineers explore architecture and security mechanisms for Reverse Engineering the Customized Pointer Authentication Hardware Implementation on Apple M1.
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Black Hat session on Reverse Engineering the Customized Pointer Authentication Hardware Implementation on Apple M1.
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