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That’s not the impression that I got. Research on side channels were basically limited to timing side channels in cryptography. Everything else was not seen as
by legulere 6y ago
That’s not the impression that I got. Research on side channels were basically limited to timing side channels in cryptography. Everything else was not seen as practically exploitable.
- wolfgke 6y ago> Everything else was not seen as practically exploitable. For a concrete blog post, see https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-memory-from-user-mode/ https://cyber.wtf/2017/07/28/negative-result-reading-kernel-... Note that according to https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spectre_(security_vulnerability)&oldid=962289953 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spectre_(security... Spectre was published January 2018, i.e. this blog post is indeed older. As I wrote: It was unclear how this potential threat could be used to create real attacks.