Reply to post: Re: Not exactly groundbreaking

PortSmash attack blasts hole in Intel's Hyper-Threading CPUs, leaves with secret crypto keys

DropBear

Re: Not exactly groundbreaking

"On top of that, it's already defunct on recent equipment. So, it was nice not knowing you, PortSmash."

I did see "does not run on newer OpenSSL". What I didn't see is any mention that the same exploit is mitigated in any other software, OS or hardware (unless you consider "turn off half of your cores" a viable fix). Did they say that anywhere?

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