[Cryptography] Spectre/Meltdown resistant 'Movfuscator' ?
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Thu Feb 1 21:35:18 EST 2018
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018, Henry Baker wrote:
> That's what Github user xoreaxeaxeax did to Doom. Their version of the
> game is branchless and relies on just a single machine instruction.
> There's no branching, or even arithmetic: The only processor command it
> contains is "mov", which scoots data from memory address to memory
> address. It's actually a demonstration of xoreaxeaxeax's more general C
> compiler, the M/o/Vfuscator2, which converts commands in the C
> programming language into machine-level instructions. Or, in this case,
> instruction, singular.
At last; a genuine candidate for the One Instruction Set Computer:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_instruction_set_computer
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