Ted Unangst <ted.unan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On OpenBSD we disable access to %tick from userland.  I think the idea
> > is to make it harder for people to perform timing attacks,
> 
> I don't believe that for a minute.  We allow rdtsc on i386.

... and rpcc on alpha.  Not that there's a way to disable it.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          na...@mips.inka.de

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