Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability

[Paul Jakma]

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Andi Kleen wrote:

> No, i strongly disagree on that. The reasonable thing to do is to 
> fix the crypto code which has this vulnerability, not break a 
> useful performance enhancement for everybody else.

Already done:

http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20030317.txt

This is old news it seems, a timing attack that has long been known 
about and fixed.

regards,
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