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If you want security, disable hyper-threading, says Linux kernel maintainer

4 pointsby devicetray0over 5 years ago

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the-dudeover 5 years ago
Didn&#x27;t one of the main OpenBSD maintainers suggest this like 10-15 years ago?<p>Unable to find it.<p>edit : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hyper-threading#Security" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Hyper-threading#Security</a><p>&quot;In May 2005, Colin Percival demonstrated that a malicious thread on a Pentium 4 can use a timing attack to monitor the memory access patterns of another thread with which it shares a cache, allowing the theft of cryptographic information.&quot;