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Re:Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices toda... by tentacleuno on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @03:19AM (#29238182)
> I, a "clever" attacker, use this to leak out your secrets- I do my hammering juuust right so that, if some secret bit is 0, your hammering flips ECC bits, while if it's 1 your hammering doesn't affect things. Lovely little side-channel.

Would ASLR make this harder? I assume it would because it'd be a lot harder to get to the correct memory location (?).

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Re:Blacksmith – Rowhammer bit flips on all DRAM devices toda... by account42 on Tuesday November 16, 2021 @06:04AM (#29239157)
ASLR adds nothing to attacks that rely on the physical location of pages since those area already allocated independently of the virtual address space.
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