Re:Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf]
by vsrinivas on Friday January 05, 2018 @12:58PM
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Control Flow Enforcement (ENDBRANCH requirement at branch targets) looks like a nice feature, looking forward to it.
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Re:Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf]
by jgowdy on Friday January 05, 2018 @05:14PM
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Agreed, which is why I’m worried about retpoline as it’s a rather hacky (but obviously pragmatic) solution that isn’t compatible with shadow stacks that mitigation strategies won’t be compatible with.