Hyperthreading under scrutiny with new TLBleed crypto key leak

[Mira Yurizaki]

On 6/26/2018 at 7:06 AM, BuckGup said:

This is sorta a big issue because a lot of programmers now days are just copying things from stack overflow and so on. Most don’t 100% know everything they are doing as it would take an immense amount of time. 

If your hardware is hosed, it doesn't matter how good your code is. You can write all the secure code you want but if the hardware is going to leak the information anyway, there's little you can do about it.

 

If anything, it should be expected that user land apps are insecure and flawed. System apps and hardware should be able to mitigate or null issues stemming from them.