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Intel is cheating by validating the protection ring of speculative executions asynchronously, aka Meltdown, which makes this timing attack work in kernel space
by cookiecaper 9y ago
Intel is cheating by validating the protection ring of speculative executions asynchronously, aka Meltdown, which makes this timing attack work in kernel space and requires the PTI mitigation. ARM does this on some cores too. AMD insists that they do not.