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Comment by juancn

This may sound stupid, but the commonality in all these side channel attacks is that high precision time keeping is a non privileged operation.

Maybe it’s time to make clocks a privileged op as a mitigation. Even making execution time non predictable on untrusted code, such as JavaScript?

If precise time keeping is unavailable these become harder to do.

parent juancn 5 years ago

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