Re: Intel hyper-threading security issues

[Georgi Guninski <guninski () guninski com>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:48:55AM +0400, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
> OpenBSD has gone ahead and disabled Intel Hyper threading with a
> fairly detailed comment about the reasons behind:
>
> https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes () openbsd org/msg99141.html
According to journos Intel won't patch this:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/06/22/intel_tlbleed_key_data_leak/
Meet TLBleed: A crypto-key-leaking CPU attack that Intel reckons we
shouldn't worry about
How to extract 256-bit signing keys with 99.8% success

Intel has, for now, no plans to specifically address a side-channel
vulnerability in its processors that can be potentially exploited by
malware to extract encryption keys and other sensitive info from
applications.