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MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols — HN submission

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 21:16:05 GMT

New Spectre/Meltdown Variants: MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime

2 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols — mentioned by enzanki_ars

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 16:43:40 GMT

Better links from the article (original link before change is only a paragraph linking to the following article and paper): http://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-variants-meltdown-spect... https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.03802.pdf TL;DR: MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime are the two new variant names. From the Tom's Hardware article: "Princeton and Nvidia researchers teamed up to produce a testing method that can generate code that represents the essence of an attack. More precisely, their method is CPU architecture-aware, so it emulates exactly what a software attack would translate into on the…

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MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols — HN submission

Wed, 21 Feb 2018 15:42:33 GMT

MeltdownPrime, SpectrePrime: Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols

96 points; 9 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols — HN submission

Tue, 20 Feb 2018 13:21:23 GMT

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks [pdf]

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MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols — mentioned by jepler

Sat, 17 Feb 2018 15:15:29 GMT

why not link directly to the paper instead? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.03802.pdf .. brb, digesting...

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MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols — HN submission

Thu, 15 Feb 2018 10:05:14 GMT

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Exploits

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MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automatically-Synthesized Attacks Exploiting Invalidation-Based Coherence Protocols — HN submission

Wed, 14 Feb 2018 16:08:51 GMT

MeltdownPrime and SpectrePrime: Automated Attacks Exploiting Coherence Protocols

6 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.