Re:Hertzbleed Attack
by hgomersall on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @03:02PM
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Presumably you can schedule only on non-information-leaking-boundaries with very high level APIs?
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Re:Hertzbleed Attack
by ChrisLomont on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @03:07PM
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>non-information-leaking-boundaries
Every one of the recent leaking boundaries were assumed to be non-leaking. You cannot just inject "non-leaking" into a statement and assume that solves anything.
Re:Hertzbleed Attack
by hgomersall on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @03:43PM
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Sure, but you can mitigate against all known attacks. You can also mitigate against the class of attacks by, for example, not allowing multitasking and forcing single task to completion (within a dedicated core for a subset of operations).