children of spectre

[der.hans]

Am 03. May, 2018 schwätzte Herminio Hernandez, Jr. so:

moin moin,

> Just when you thought it could not get any worst... so when will we be
> moving to RISC??

We're already on risky :).

I expect we will continue having new vulns discovered for at least the
next couple years.

ciao,

der.hans

> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 9:12 AM, Stephen Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> struth....
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 3, 2018 at 9:11 AM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>>
>>> moin moin,
>>>
>>> 8 new intel flaws set for announcement.
>>>
>>> https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/Exclusive-Spectre-NG-Multipl
>>> e-new-Intel-CPU-flaws-revealed-several-serious-4040648.html
>>>
>>> At least one of the kids appears to be much worse than spectre.
>>>
>>> "an attacker could launch exploit code in a virtual machine (VM) and
>>> attack the host system from there – the server of a cloud hoster, for
>>> example. Alternatively, it could attack the VMs of other customers running
>>> on the same server."
>>>
>>> "Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX), which are designed to protect
>>> sensitive data on cloud servers, are also not Spectre-safe."
>>>
>>> ciao,
>>>
>>> der.hans
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>>
>> Stephen
>>
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