Reply to post: Re: Extraction rate is a function of RAM capacity.

Meltdown, Spectre: The password theft bugs at the heart of Intel CPUs

Dwarf

Re: Extraction rate is a function of RAM capacity.

Think you missed the point I was trying to make. The volume of data is higher, therefore it will take more time to get anything useful out, hence slowing down the attack. Sifting the useful bits from the non-useful bits takes more time again and who's to say that the couple of bytes you got from VM1 and couple from VM27 are any good without the rest that has not been recovered yet.

I accept that it doesn't fix the problem, but it would buy a lot of time.

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