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talyian | 8 years ago

the requirements are easy to meet - you just need to be able to time operations at a suitable precision. The exploits are possible in Javascript running in a browser.

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saganus|8 years ago

Yeah, I saw the PoC in the Spectre paper, but I was wondering if a JVM language could meet those reqs.

I have absolutely no idea if using the JVM would for example, mess with the required precision since I'm guessing one would need to use JNI/JNA to get the timing and that could maybe not be suitable?

peoplewindow|8 years ago

Java provides access to high resolution timers without JNI and optimises them very well.