Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:47:15 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: Jules Gilbert <repeatable_compression@yahoo.com> Cc: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com>, Eric McCorkle <eric@metricspace.net>, Freebsd Security <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "freebsd-arch\@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>, Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Intel hardware bug Message-ID: <861sj4tlak.fsf@desk.des.no> In-Reply-To: <809675000.867372.1515146821354@mail.yahoo.com> (Jules Gilbert's message of "Fri, 5 Jan 2018 10:07:01 %2B0000 (UTC)") References: <736a2b77-d4a0-b03f-8a6b-6a717f5744d4@metricspace.net> <2594.1515141192@segfault.tristatelogic.com> <809675000.867372.1515146821354@mail.yahoo.com>
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Jules Gilbert <repeatable_compression@yahoo.com> writes: > Sorry guys, you just convinced me that no one, not the NSA, not the > FSB, no one!, has in the past, or will in the future be able to > exploit this to actually do something not nice. The technique has already been proven by multiple independent parties to work quite well, allowing an attacker to read kernel memory at speeds of up to 500 kB/s. But I guess you know better... DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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