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Attacks which combine software vulnerabilities and hardware vulnerabilities are emerging security problems. Although the runtime verification or remote attestation can determine the correctness of a system, existing methods suffer from inflexible security policy setup and high performance overheads. Meanwhile, they rarely focus on addressing the threat in the RISC-V architecture, which provides an open Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) of the processsor. In this paper, we propose a comprehensive software and hardware co-verification method to protect the entire RISC-V system in the runtime. The proposed method adopts the Dynamic Information Flow Tracking (DIFT) framework to implement a new Verifier and Prover security architecture for supporting runtime software and hardware coverification. We realize a FPGA prototype on the Rocket-Chip, an RISC-V open-source processor core. The framework is implemented as a co-processor which do not change the architecture of main processor core and the new security architecture can be integrated with other RISC-V processors.more » « less
