On 3/5/19 5:31 PM, speck for Andrew Cooper wrote:
> On 05/03/2019 20:36, speck for Jiri Kosina wrote:
>> On Tue, 5 Mar 2019, speck for Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>
>>>> Looks like the papers are starting to leak:
>>>>
>>>>    https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.00446.pdf
>>>>
>>>> yes, yes, a lot of the attack seems to be about rowhammer, but the
>>>> "spolier" part looks like MDS.
>>> So Intel was aware of that paper, but wasn't expecting it to go public
>>> today.
>>>
>>> =46rom their point of view, it is a traditional timing sidechannel on a
>>> piece of the pipeline (which happens to be component which exists for
>>> speculative memory disambiguation).
>>>
>>> There are no proposed changes to the MDS timeline at this point.
>> So this is not the paper that caused the panic fearing that PSF might leak 
>> earlier than the rest of the issues in mid-february (which few days later 
>> Intel claimed to have succesfully negotiated with the researches not to 
>> publish before the CRD)?
> 
> Correct.
> 
> The incident you are referring to is a researcher who definitely found
> PSF, contacted Intel and was initially displeased at the proposed embargo.

Indeed. There are at least three different teams with papers that read
on MDS, and all of them are holding to the embargo.

Jon.

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