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Date:      Sun, 15 May 2005 13:19:47 +0200
From:      Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/amd64/amd64 mp_machdep.c src/sys/amd64/include cpufunc.h src/sys/i386/i386 mp_machdep.c src/sys/i386/include cpufunc.h
Message-ID:  <20050515111947.GA40261@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <97079.1116154766@critter.freebsd.dk>
References:  <4286E6A5.4030902@freebsd.org> <97079.1116154766@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 12:59:26PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote..
> In message <4286E6A5.4030902@freebsd.org>, Colin Percival writes:
> >Nate Lawson wrote:
> >> That is at best, hyperbole.
> >
> >Have you been talking to Intel lately?
> >
> >>  Crypto implementations which properly
> >> implement blinding or operate in constant time are not vulnerable.
> >
> >Crypto implementations which implement blinding are vulnerable.
> 
> This is not just about crypto.
> 
> There are many processes which a random process should not be allowed
> to spy on in a multiuser system.
> 
> Your boss text-procssing or email program for one thing.

Or the other way around for that matter :)

-- 
Wilko Bulte				wilko@FreeBSD.org



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