Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability

On Mon, 16 May 2005 13:14:23 MDT, Eric W. Biederman said:

> Interesting.  I think that is a problem for the hypervisor maintainer.
> Although that is about enough to convince me to request a
> OS flag that says "please give me privacy" and later that can be passed
> down to the hypervisor.  My gut feel is running under a hypervisor
> is when things will at their most vulnerable.

Not really, because....

> I think discovering a crypto process will simply be a matter
> finding a https sever.  As for getting the timing how about
> initiating a https connection?  Getting rid of the noise will certainly
> be a challenge but you will have multiple attempts.

And the hypervisor is, if anything, adding noise.

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References:
- Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
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- Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
  - From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
- Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
  - From: "Richard F. Rebel" <[email protected]>
- Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
  - From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
- Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
  - From: Andy Isaacson <[email protected]>
- Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
  - From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
- Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
  - From: [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)
- Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
  - From: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>
- Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability
  - From: [email protected] (Eric W. Biederman)

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