Re:CacheBleed: A Timing Attack on OpenSSL Constant Time RSA
by exDM69 on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @12:34PM
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> The attack only works between processes running on two hyper-threads of the same core. Disabling hyper-threading is an effective mitigation against the attack.
In a virtual machine on a shared cloud server, do threads from two different VMs ever share a core?
In a virtual machine on a shared cloud server, do threads from two different VMs ever share a core?
Ie. is this a viable cross-VM attack?