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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by FranOntanaya on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @09:45PM (#16067588)
It doesn't look that hard, and in any case, we will suffer the mitigation consequences either way.
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by contrarian_ on Thursday January 04, 2018 @06:13AM (#16069445)
Worse, no mitigation will ever be complete against Spectre, unless flat out disabling speculation across memory loads.
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Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel by wilun on Friday January 05, 2018 @11:28PM (#16083853)
With the right new instructions inserted at the right place, assisted by a good type system, and a processor that does not share its resources like crazy in highly uncontrolled ways, this seems fixable.

Sadly, I feel the only part that won't happen will be the programming language part, but who knows.

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