[Cryptography] How to make rowhammer less likely

Howard Chu hyc at symas.com
Mon Jun 18 10:16:37 EDT 2018


Guus Sliepen wrote:
> It is much simpler and cheaper to just increase the RAM
> refresh rate, use ECC, and monitor performance counters to detect
> excessive cache flushes generated by a single program.

I would expect that non-volatile RAM (like STT-MRAM or Intel Optane ReRAM) 
should make all of this moot. Anyone know?

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