Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Mon, 16 May 2005 16:05:48 -0400 |
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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. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |