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Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by nickysielicki on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:58PM (#43429458)
okay, sure, ASLR can be defeated by hardware leaks. The first rowhammer papers were over ten years ago, it's very old news. It's totally irrelevant to this thread. The fact that there exist designs that have hardware flaws which make them incapable of hosting a secure PRNG does not have any relevance to a discussion about the merits or lack thereof of a PRNG-based security measures. The systems you're referring to don't have secure PRNGs.

Words have meaning, god damn it! ASLR is not security through obscurity.

Edit: I was operating under the assumption that “AnC” was some new hotness, but no, this is the same stuff that’s always been around, timing attacks on the caches. And there’s still the same solution as there was back then: you wipe the caches out so your adversaries have no opportunity to measure the latencies. It’s what they always should have done on consumer devices running untrusted code.

Re:Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them by ryao on Saturday March 22, 2025 @02:45PM (#43447690)
> ASLR is not security through obscurity.

I used to think this, but hearing about the AnC attack changed my mind. I have never heard of anyone claiming to mitigate it.