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> has already been patched against ... has not been (effectively) patched against, as it happens. Maybe in December!

Standard operating procedure for both the Chrome [ https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/s... ] and Firefox [ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/po…

> Xiaogang (Cliff) Wang is listed as the principal investigator. No, you are misreading the award abstract. Cliff Wang is the program manager at NSF who is the point of contact for…

It's not guaranteed. See section 7 of https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurit...

> power need[s] to be exploited locally Not in the presence of DVFS, it turns out: https://www.hertzbleed.com/hertzbleed.pdf

Abersoft Forth for the ZX Spectrum inspired one of the classic books about Forth, Don Thomasson's /Advanced Spectrum FORTH/ (1984): https://archive.org/details/AdvancedSpectrumFORT…

Levine's /Linkers and Loaders/ is a great book, but it's still in print, and this is an unauthorized copy. The author's home page ( https://www.iecc.com/linker/ ) used to host a Po…

Yes! See, e.g., Fraser Brown et al., "Towards a Verified Range Analysis for JavaScript JITs," in proc. PLDI 2020, https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~hovav/dist/vera.pdf

A JIT is a machine for turning logic bugs into memory unsafety. Rewriting a JIT in Rust won't eliminate logic bugs and won't guarantee memory safety for the binary output of the JI…

Even with a verifiably random key, Dual EC is still unacceptable. First, because its output has unacceptable biases [1,2]. Second, because its presence allows an attacker to create…

It would not help at all. See (all of, but especially) section 5.4 of N. Carlini, A. Barresi, M. Payer, D. Wagner, and T.R. Gross, "Control-Flow Bending: On the Effectiveness of Co…

Indeed, the History of Documented Unix Facilities [ https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-man ] says a vi(1) man page first appeared in 2BSD, and vi is implemented (as part of…

"Best Practices (BP) papers, up to 10 pages. Suitable papers are those that provide an integration and clarification of ideas on an established, major research area, support or cha…

X. Ren et al., "I See Dead µops: Leaking Secrets via Intel/AMD Micro-Op Caches," in proc. ISCA 2021: https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tullsen/isca2021.pdf

It's listed as a summer deadline accepted paper for USENIX Security 2023: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity23/summer-ac... Per the call for papers [ https://www.usen…

See also the closely related "DVFS Frequently Leaks Secrets: Hertzbleed Attacks Beyond SIKE, Cryptography, and CPU-Only Data," presented at Oakland last week: https://www.hertzblee…

See also the closely related "DVFS Frequently Leaks Secrets: Hertzbleed Attacks Beyond SIKE, Cryptography, and CPU-Only Data," which will be presented at Oakland today: https://www…

I don't think Juniper used BSAFE in ScreenOS -- they seem to have put together their own Dual EC implementation on top of OpenSSL, sometime around 2008. (This doesn't change your p…

Steven Galbraith's Mathematics of Public Key Cryptography : https://www.math.auckland.ac.nz/~sgal018/crypto-book/crypto-...