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[hotaru]

any nation that has prisons has slaves. unless they've abolished prisons very recently, they have slaves right now....

[hotaru]

first "Firebird" and now "Dragonfly"... and now we'll probably see that Mozilla renaming their browser to "Firefox"...

[hotaru]

of course it's not part of Russia. it hasn't been since 1917, more than 100 years ago....

[hotaru]

starting a war to prevent a war? Russia's security is in Russia, not Ukraine. Ukraine didn't invade Russia. If Russia wants to prevent a war, they should...

[hotaru]

Russia's national security interests end at Russia's borders. If Russia wants to fight NATO in Russia, they have every right to do that. Is being in Russia...

[hotaru]

you didn't make any point. of course constant-time code can have side channels, which is why faster constant-time code makes it more difficult to exploit...

[hotaru]

no, it definitely is true. the less time the CPU spends running code that deals with sensitive data, the less time there is for an attacker to exploit...

[hotaru]

as long as the code is constant-time, making it faster actually decreases the availability of side-channel attacks....

[hotaru]

I've been using QEMU to run some software that requires AVX2 on a Sandy Bridge server. it'll be interesting to see if FEX is faster for this use case...

[hotaru]

AES-NI-related vulnerabilities are far from being the only vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine...

[hotaru]

it'll be fun to see what new security vulnerabilities Intel managed to bake into this accelerator.