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From: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: Starting to go public?
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 17:02:03 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <afbbc196-dd45-fca0-4553-24bb2090b3f1@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wi+bf0aiwkjs9MYqt9X=ZZXW3EgbsVX1+XsaQj7qz52TQ@mail.gmail.com>

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On 05/03/2019 16:43, speck for Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Looks like the papers are starting to leak:
>
>    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00446.pdf
>
> yes, yes, a lot of the attack seems to be about rowhammer, but the
> "spolier" part looks like MDS.

So Intel was aware of that paper, but wasn't expecting it to go public
today.

From their point of view, it is a traditional timing sidechannel on a
piece of the pipeline (which happens to be component which exists for
speculative memory disambiguation).

There are no proposed changes to the MDS timeline at this point.

~Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-05 17:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-05 16:43 [MODERATED] Starting to go public? Linus Torvalds
2019-03-05 17:02 ` Andrew Cooper [this message]
2019-03-05 20:36   ` [MODERATED] " Jiri Kosina
2019-03-05 22:31     ` Andrew Cooper
2019-03-06 16:18       ` [MODERATED] Encrypted Message Jon Masters
2019-03-05 17:10 ` Jon Masters

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