Intel hardware bug

[John-Mark Gurney]

Ronald F. Guilmette wrote this message on Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 12:17 -0800:
> If the meltdown or spectre (or both) attacks are based on careful analysis
> of timing information, following a memory fault, then why just just introduce
> a very tiny delay, of randomized duration, in the relevant kernel fault handler,
> following each such fault?

Randomization only makes it harder, not impossible to detect the timing
impact.  You just need to collect more samples to average out the noise.

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