[MODERATED] Re: Starting to go public?

From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.com>
To: speck@linutronix.de
Subject: [MODERATED] Re: Starting to go public?
Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2019 21:36:57 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YFH.7.76.1903052133170.19912@cbobk.fhfr.pm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afbbc196-dd45-fca0-4553-24bb2090b3f1@citrix.com>

On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, speck for Andrew Cooper 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.
> 
> =46rom 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.

So this is not the paper that caused the panic fearing that PSF might leak 
earlier than the rest of the issues in mid-february (which few days later 
Intel claimed to have succesfully negotiated with the researches not to 
publish before the CRD)?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs