Is hyperthreading dangerous?
Posted May 25, 2005 9:53 UTC (Wed) by
mjc@redhat.com (guest, #2303)
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Is hyperthreading dangerous?
> In the longer term, authors of cryptographic code may find that they need
> to add avoidance of data-dependent memory access patterns
At least one affected cryptographic library has been evaluating ways to mitigate this issue. OpenSSL is adding contsant-time exponentiation:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssl-cvs&m=1116207...
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