Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2018 10:27:59 -0500 From: Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net> To: "freebsd-security@freebsd.org" <freebsd-security@freebsd.org> Subject: Potential band-aid for Meltdown Message-ID: <30300a34-d0d9-efbf-c9b3-6375703f65a0@metricspace.net>
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I was thinking over meltdown mitigations this morning, and a thought occurred to me (which falls in line with general ideas I've been pursuing) This is a Crowd Supply project I've been eyeing: https://www.crowdsupply.com/rhs-research/nanoevb It's basically an FPGA that can plug into an M.2 slot. One potential use of this could be to use it as an off-die crypto unit, thereby keeping keys out of memory. I don't know what the driver situation looks like for this thing, but as its an open hardware project, I doubt it would be too hard to get support up and running. I realize it's not a perfect solution by far, but it would provide some level of mitigation (especially for things like GELI) that could hold people over until they can replace their hardware.
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