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52. Spooked about Spectre
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After a brief discussion about cryptocurrency, Chris and Soroush discuss the CPU vulnerabilites that made news recently: Meltdown and Spectre.
- Kodak Debuts Bitcoin Miner as Blockchain Pivot Juices Stock Price
- Coinbase
- Dogecoin Market Cap Hits $1 Billion, to Its Creator’s Dismay
- Chris’s Meltdown & Spectre reading list
- Wired: A Critical Intel Flaw Breaks Basic Security for Most Computers
- Google Project Zero: Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
- Meltdown and Spectre
- Ad blockers
- iMore: Best ad blockers for iOS
- Better
- Adblock Plus
- uBlock Origin
- NoScript
- Apple: About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, Security Update 2017-002 Sierra, and Security Update 2017-005 El Capitan
- Mitigations for Chrome and Firefox
- A Timing Attack In Action
- Coding Rules (cryptocoding.net)
Some more advanced & background reading on Meltdown and Spectre:
- In-Order vs. Out-of-Order Execution (PDF)
- Branch Prediction (PDF)
- A brief history of branch prediction
- CPU Cache (Wikipedia)
- Understanding Cache Attacks (PDF)
- Memory Protection (Wikipedia)
- Spectre mitigation approach from Google: Retpoline: a software construct for preventing branch-target-injection
Comment from Chris after the show was posted:
Hi, all! I really struggled through my first Spectre explanation in this episode, but if you skip ahead to about 21:20 I think our discussion gets easier to follow. — Chris
94 episodes
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After a brief discussion about cryptocurrency, Chris and Soroush discuss the CPU vulnerabilites that made news recently: Meltdown and Spectre.
- Kodak Debuts Bitcoin Miner as Blockchain Pivot Juices Stock Price
- Coinbase
- Dogecoin Market Cap Hits $1 Billion, to Its Creator’s Dismay
- Chris’s Meltdown & Spectre reading list
- Wired: A Critical Intel Flaw Breaks Basic Security for Most Computers
- Google Project Zero: Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
- Meltdown and Spectre
- Ad blockers
- iMore: Best ad blockers for iOS
- Better
- Adblock Plus
- uBlock Origin
- NoScript
- Apple: About the security content of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2, Security Update 2017-002 Sierra, and Security Update 2017-005 El Capitan
- Mitigations for Chrome and Firefox
- A Timing Attack In Action
- Coding Rules (cryptocoding.net)
Some more advanced & background reading on Meltdown and Spectre:
- In-Order vs. Out-of-Order Execution (PDF)
- Branch Prediction (PDF)
- A brief history of branch prediction
- CPU Cache (Wikipedia)
- Understanding Cache Attacks (PDF)
- Memory Protection (Wikipedia)
- Spectre mitigation approach from Google: Retpoline: a software construct for preventing branch-target-injection
Comment from Chris after the show was posted:
Hi, all! I really struggled through my first Spectre explanation in this episode, but if you skip ahead to about 21:20 I think our discussion gets easier to follow. — Chris
94 episodes
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