[plug] "Hyper-Threading, suffers from a serious security flaw,"

[Bernard Blackham]

On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 10:30:56PM +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> Besides, it only really affects multi user systems..

Additionally, the attack requires that the machine be rather quiet,
and the scheduling be predictable, making it even less likely on a
busy multi-user system.

> I don't think I've ever seen anyone use a HT enabled processor in
> a server.  Certainly I've never seen IBM or HP sell one as a
> solution.

Intel Xeons come with HT. I've seen those in a lot of servers :)

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>