Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch...
by userbinator on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @11:13AM
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It doesn’t even seem to be a bug at all, but a side channel attack that would be almost expected in a processor with speculative execution unless special measures were taken to prevent it.
Indeed, this reminds me of cache-timing attacks, which probably can be done on every CPU with any cache at all --- and they've never seemed to be much of a big deal either.
Indeed, this reminds me of cache-timing attacks, which probably can be done on every CPU with any cache at all --- and they've never seemed to be much of a big deal either.