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Would it have been a lull if all of intels flaws and security issues were known at the time? Those go back many years but weren't discovered til fairly recently
by cronix 7y ago
Would it have been a lull if all of intels flaws and security issues were known at the time? Those go back many years but weren't discovered til fairly recently and AMD didn't have most of them.
- throwaway2048 7y agoNot all of them were known back then obviously, but there were definitely known timing-info-leak flaws with Pentium 4 hyper threading[1], its remarkable on that basis that the modern class of execution timing exploits has taken so long to arise, considering their approach and concept really isn't fundamentally any different. [1] http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf by none other than our resident cpercival!