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Re:Nvidia Security Team: "What if we just stopped using C?" ... by 0xbadcafebee on Thursday February 13, 2025 @07:14PM (#43043126)
I forget sometimes that the papers and talks issued by teams at most companies are for PR and resume-padding. They hype the findings that justify that team's budget, and bury any negatives.

The other funny thing I noticed is the formal verification just means the program implements the standard - it doesn't mean the standard doesn't have security holes! And sometimes the security holes are implementation-specific, like timing attacks, which can require weird low-level tricks to solve.

Re:Nvidia Security Team: "What if we just stopped using C?" ... by edelbitter on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:57AM (#43048952)
>bury any negatives

I was looking for the x86-specific rant, and did not find it. You'd think that team would have had something to say about architecture complexity.

Re:Nvidia Security Team: "What if we just stopped using C?" ... by transpute on Friday February 14, 2025 @11:39AM (#43050195)
Nvidia’s GPU root of trust, where they are using SPARK, is based on RISC-V, they have a talk about that choice, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43045952