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The #1 consumer use case that would benefit from error-correction would be not having remote exploits due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer https://en
by bzbarsky 10y ago
The #1 consumer use case that would benefit from error-correction would be not having remote exploits due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
- jpt4 10y agoThank you, that is a compelling argument.
- homarp 10y agothe wikipedia page says: " Tests show that simple ECC solutions, providing single-error correction and double-error detection (SECDED) capabilities, are not able to correct or detect all observed disturbance errors because some of them include more than two flipped bits per memory word." http://serverfault.com/questions/674214/what-is-the-rowhammer-dram-bug-and-how-should-i-treat-it http://serverfault.com/questions/674214/what-is-the-rowhamme... adds "ECC effectively turns the Row Hammer exploit into a DOS attack. 1bit errors will be corrected by ECC, and as soon as a non-correctable 2bit error is detected the system will halt (assuming SECDED ECC)."
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