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Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues
From: Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 08:10:08 +0300
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:48:55AM +0400, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
OpenBSD has gone ahead and disabled Intel Hyper threading with a fairly detailed comment about the reasons behind: https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes () openbsd org/msg99141.html
According to journos Intel won't patch this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/22/intel_tlbleed_key_data_leak/ Meet TLBleed: A crypto-key-leaking CPU attack that Intel reckons we shouldn't worry about How to extract 256-bit signing keys with 99.8% success Intel has, for now, no plans to specifically address a side-channel vulnerability in its processors that can be potentially exploited by malware to extract encryption keys and other sensitive info from applications.
Current thread:
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues, (continued)
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues Lukas Odzioba (Jun 21)
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues Sven Schwedas (Jun 21)
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues Solar Designer (Jun 21)
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues Michael Ellerman (Jun 22)
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues Solar Designer (Jun 22)
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues Seth Arnold (Jun 22)
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues Peter Kjellström (Jun 23)
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues Lukas Odzioba (Jun 21)
- Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues Gordon Tetlow (Jun 21)