Re: Hyper-Threading Vulnerability

[Diego Calleja]

El Fri, 13 May 2005 20:03:58 +0200,
Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> escribió:


> This is not a kernel problem, but a user space problem. The fix 
> is to change the user space crypto code to need the same number of cache line
> accesses on all keys. 


However they've patched the FreeBSD kernel to "workaround?" it:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/patches/SA-05:09/htt5.patch

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