On 05/03/2019 20:36, speck for Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 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)?

Correct.

The incident you are referring to is a researcher who definitely found
PSF, contacted Intel and was initially displeased at the proposed embargo.

~Andrew