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OTOH, a rowhammer attack on ECC memory will likely flip 1 bit before it flips 2, making attacks theoretically detectable. Without ECC, there's no clear way to d
by hathawsh 9y ago
OTOH, a rowhammer attack on ECC memory will likely flip 1 bit before it flips 2, making attacks theoretically detectable. Without ECC, there's no clear way to detect an attack.
- lolc 9y agoI'd assume that parity is checked on access, which may give enough time to flip more than one bit before it's detected.
- Rebellos 9y agoECC memory controller performs memory scrubbing periodically, in the background, during which it checks parity and corrects any bitflips. Otherwise ECC would not work nearly as well as it does.
- Dylan16807 9y agoParity isn't checked during every single row refresh?
- cesarb 9y agoAFAIK, row refresh is done within each memory chip, while the ECC bits are normally on a separate chip (for instance, where a non-ECC module has 8 chips, an ECC modules has 9 chips), so ECC scrubbing has to be done in the memory controller.