technical/2020/06/10/cpu-side-channel

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CPU Cache Side-Channel Attacks: Meltdown & Spectre | Guanzhou (Jose) Hu

One of the most dangerous kinds of security attacks is side-channel attacks since they are not part of the designed threat model. Meltdown & Spectre, the most recent side-channel vulnerabilities found on modern microprocessors, are good demonstration of the sneakiness and danger of side-channel attacks. These attacks combine CPU speculative execution + cache timing side-channel.

https://www.josehu.com/technical/2020/06/10/cpu-side-channel.html

[nickwinlund]

Thanks for this write-up, Jose. It is educational.