On Wed, 25 May 2005, matthew green wrote:

:   
:   There are no code changes, the workaround is simply to disable HT in
:   the BIOS.  There may be some code changes later, if it's determined
:   that they can feasibly provide any benefit - it's not entirely clear
:   that they can.
:
:
:of course code patches could help -- do not spin up logical cpus,
:only the physical ones.
:

Or fixing the scheduler and perhaps pieces of code that might be targetted 
by attackers (ie., OpenSSL RSA implementation -- there are ways to, while 
degrading performance, make it "more secure" against these types of 
attacks).  

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Andrew R. Reiter
arr@watson.org