[Info-vax] Intel x86-64 Processor Design Security Vulnerability?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-01-04 06:02:41 +0000, Derrell Piper said:

> On Wednesday, January 3, 2018 at 9:09:18 PM UTC-8, Andy Burns wrote:
>> Derrell Piper wrote:
>> 
>>> Jann Horn, Project Zero deserves credit for this one:
>> 
>> <https://spectreattack.com>
> 
> I don't know what that site is, and I don't find it particularly 
> interesting either.  Any technical discussions about this bug are 
> welcome here.  Please leave your hype at the door.

Security vulnerabilities are usually marketed and branded and have 
logos now, and this has been the case for a number of years.

The cited web site has the white papers.  Here are the direct links to 
the two papers:

https://spectreattack.com/spectre.pdf
https://meltdownattack.com/meltdown.pdf

As I've mentioned in an omnibus of links and comments posted just 
recently, Spectre is the more intractable of the two.


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