What security issue?

What security issue?

Posted Dec 11, 2008 14:49 UTC (Thu) by anton (guest, #25547)
In reply to: What security issue? by NCunningham
Parent article: KSM runs into patent trouble

I think a more reliable leak is to then write in the page, and see if the write takes a long time (due to copy-on-write). There were other potential information leaks discussed, but IMO they were all pretty far-fetched and can be defended against (e.g., don't make it predictable when pages will be merged; on the application side, when inputting passwords, initialize the buffer with random data).

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