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nbsd4lyfe on Jan 4, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Mitigations landing for new class of timing attack

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Retr0spectrum on Jan 4, 2018 [–]

Seccomp does this in most kernel versions I believe: http://blog.cr0.org/2009/05/time-stamp-counter-disabling-odd...

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