On 8/21/18, 1:37 AM, "Beowulf on behalf of Chris Samuel"
<beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org on behalf of ch...@csamuel.org> wrote:
On Tuesday, 21 August 2018 3:27:59 AM AEST Lux, Jim (337K) wrote:
> I'd find it hard to believe that Intel's CPU designers sat around
> implementing deliberate flaws ( the Bosch engine controller for VW model).
Not to mention that Spectre variants affected AMD, ARM & IBM (at least).
This publicly NSA funded research ("The Intel 80x86 processor architecture:
pitfalls for secure systems") from 1995 has an interesting section:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/398934/
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/2209/42809262c17b6631c0f6536c91aaf7756857.pdf
Section 3.10 - Cache and TLB timing channels
which warns (in generalities) about the use of MSRs and the use of
instruction
timing as side channels.
Such vulnerabilities have existed since the early days of computers. As
processors and use cases have gotten more complex they're harder to find.
This is why back in "orange book" days there's the whole "system high" mode of
operation - basically "air gap, you, or things you trust, are the only one on
the machine"
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