Kazem Taram, an assistant professor of computer science at Purdue University and a UC San Diego computer science PhD graduate, recently stated that Pathfinder is the most accurate and powerful microarchitectural control-flow extraction attack that has been seen so far. The research involved collaboration with UC San Diego coauthors Dean Tullsen, Hosein Yavarzadeh, Archit Agarwal, and Deian Stefan. Additional coauthors included Christina Garman and Daniel Moghimi from Purdue University, Daniel Genkin from Georgia Tech, and Max Christman and Andrew Kwong from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
The study was supported by various organizations, including the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and donations from Intel, Qualcomm