Mill Computing, Inc. Forums The Mill Architecture Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security Reply To: Mill vs. Spectre: Performance and Security

goldbug
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They recently discovered SplitSpectre, which is a spectre variant with a much simpler gadget.

With regular spectre, this was the gadget needed in the victim space:


if (x < array1_size)
  y = array2[array1[x] * 4096];

Which is not that common.

With SplitSpectre, this is the gadget needed:


if (x < array1_size)
  y = array1[x];

Which happens practically everywhere.

Access to array2 can be in the villan’s space if y is returned.

From your talk, I reckon the mill is still not affected.

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