Google Researchers Say Software Alone Can't Mitigate Spectre Chip Flaws

'A group of researchers say that it will be difficult to avoid Spectre
bugs in the future unless CPUs are dramatically overhauled. From a
report:

Google researchers say that software alone is not enough to prevent
the exploitation of the Spectre flaws present in a variety of CPUs.
The team of researchers -- including Ross McIlroy, Jaroslav Sevcik,
Tobias Tebbi, Ben L Titzer and Toon Verwaest -- work on Chrome's V8
JavaScript engine. The researchers presented their findings in a paper
distributed through ArXiv and came to the conclusion that all
processors that perform speculative execution will always remain
susceptible to various side-channel attacks, despite mitigations that
may be discovered in future. '

-- source: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/19/02/21/1630210

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
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