Spectre via AVX Clock Speed Throttle?

Posted by razer6 on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @05:30AM
from the numberworld.org dept.

http://www.numberworld.org/blogs/2018_6_16_avx_spectre/

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Re:Spectre via AVX Clock Speed Throttle? by mhkool on Wednesday August 08, 2018 @08:25AM (#17715275)

The attack assumes that at the beginning of the attack the CPU is not in AVX clock throttle mode. The code should wait for the CPU in normal (non-throttle) mode before starting the attack.

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