[MODERATED] Re: Starting to go public?

On 05/03/2019 16:43, speck for Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Looks like the papers are starting to leak:
>
>    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00446.pdf
>
> yes, yes, a lot of the attack seems to be about rowhammer, but the
> "spolier" part looks like MDS.

So Intel was aware of that paper, but wasn't expecting it to go public
today.

From their point of view, it is a traditional timing sidechannel on a
piece of the pipeline (which happens to be component which exists for
speculative memory disambiguation).

There are no proposed changes to the MDS timeline at this point.

~Andrew