Keeping secrets in memfd areas
Keeping secrets in memfd areas
Posted Feb 14, 2020 17:02 UTC (Fri) by hansendc (subscriber, #7363)In reply to: Keeping secrets in memfd areas by Funcan
Parent article: Keeping secrets in memfd areas
Theoretically. But, rowhammer is also most effective when you can get access to *lots* of memory so you can find flips of value between pages with special physical relationships on the media. This mechanism is at least limited by RLIMIT_MEMLOCK, which means that normal users can't normally get large swaths of it.