No, but expect other issues, since you're talking about new architectures that 
haven't yet been vetted.


--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 4, 2018 8:06 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Intel Chip flaw

On Thu, 4 Jan 2018 05:07:03 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>
>Now, those algorithms are exploited. Basically, you load a 'fetch protected' 
>address and then use/mis-use 'out of order execution' and 'speculative 
>execution' while messing around with the contents of CPU caches.
>
>Long story, but in short, before you are interrupted because of fetch 
>protection, you can dump protected areas to somewhere else.
>
Is this likely to get worse with quantum computers, which are vastly more 
speculative?

-- gil

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