[Cryptography] Start the clock

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sun Mar 8 05:21:32 EDT 2020


Richard Outerbridge <outer at interlog.com> writes:

>( https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/05/unfixable_intel_csme_flaw/ )
>
>”… we believe that extracting this key is only a matter of time.”

So the next question, or next two questions, are (1) is this protecting
anything anyone really cares about and (2) given that the IME already has more
vulnerabilities than a $a has $b, does it matter?

Peter.


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