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The fact that Spectre was manifest on Intel, AMD and ARM suggests that any open source solution that utilized the same performance strategies would have also ha
by wwarner 9y ago
The fact that Spectre was manifest on Intel, AMD and ARM suggests that any open source solution that utilized the same performance strategies would have also had the same attack vector.
- _chris_ 9y ago> any open source solution that utilized the same performance strategies would have also had the same attack vector. And then researchers, armed with open-source hardware implementations, can openly probe the systems with white box attacks; then they can fix the system; and then they can verify the fix. In reading the Spectre/Meltdown white papers, I was a little disturbed at how the authors had to grok through the fog to figure out how to attack the machine, and that they could not say with certain if a particular CPU was actually invulnerable or if their particular attack was simply ineffective.
- katastic 9y agoMeanwhile, the Mill CPU is just laughing in the background going, "You ready for me yet?"