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Intel Fail: OpenBSD disables Intel HyperThreading, Lazy FP State Restore



On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:44:21PM -0400, grarpamp wrote:
> https://www.mail-archive.com/source-changes at openbsd.org/msg99141.html

According to journos intel won't fix 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.