Re: Making Computers Secure

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From: Scott Lurndal
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2018 21:33

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Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> writes:
>On 2/1/2018 1:49 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
>> On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 12:37:35 PM UTC-7, Andrew Swallow wrote:
>> 
>>> Recently two chip level security breaches have been revealed, one of
>>> which works on ARM chips.
>> 
>> You wouldn't happen to be talking about Meltdown and Spectre by any chance,
>> would you?
>> 
>> But _both_ Meltdown and Spectre work on ARM chips; Spectre, but not Meltdown,
>> works on AMD chips as well.
>> 
>
>Meltdown and Spectre do *not* work on the less powerful ARM chips on the 
>Raspberry Pi boards.

Those attacks only work on out-of-order cores that speculate memory accesses
that down incorrect paths.   There are only two ARM(tm) cores of the several
dozen ARM variants that suffer from one of the two issues.

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