Mozilla is literally turning off SharedArrayBuffer effective immediately because of the kernel memory bug D:https://twitter.com/migueldeicaza/status/948715833605459969 …
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Replying to @mcclure111 @antumbral
Not just Mozilla, Chrome too, and probably the others. It's because SharedArrayBuffers could be used to implement a high res timer.
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I don't know anything here, but if you can repeat the attack as many times as you like could you use statistics to do the timing attack with a lower res timer?
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Replying to @moocowpong1 @Tojiro and
Yes. Lowering res will not stop timing attacks, just slow them down. To stop them you need to falsify time in a way that doesn't preserve statistics, or eliminate time.
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Replying to @RichFelker @moocowpong1 and
"To fix this massive, worldwide computer bug we must eliminate time." <-- I want to see this episode of Doctor Who, like, yesterday.
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Sadly it's not that exciting. It's more like "eliminate all observability if time", which is harder than it sounds.
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