[Cryptography] Speculation considered harmful?

[Tony Arcieri]

On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 2:28 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <cryptography at dukhovni.org>
wrote:

> There's not much point in debating on this list largely impractical
> seat-of-the-pants CPU-design changes.  Making the cache transactional
> is I expect almost certainly far too complex a design option.
>
> Measures to improve process isolation are likely much more realistic.
>

A slightly more tangible approach is partitioning the cache around
protection domains:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2005/280

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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