{"id":6698,"date":"2015-03-11T10:12:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T14:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6698"},"modified":"2015-03-11T11:20:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T15:20:59","slug":"the-great-beast-is-armored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6698","title":{"rendered":"The Great Beast is armored!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All my readers should be aware of the <a href=\"http:\/\/googleprojectzero.blogspot.com\/2015\/03\/exploiting-dram-rowhammer-bug-to-gain.html\">Rowhammer<\/a> attack by now.<\/p>\n<p>It gives me great pleasure to report that thanks to our foresight in specifying ECC memory for the design, the Great Beast of Malvern has armor of proof against this attack.  The proof being over a thousand runs of the Rowhammer test.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, everyone who threw money into the Beast&#8217;s build budget.  If y&#8217;all hadn&#8217;t been so generous, the build team might have had to make compromises.  One of the most likely items to be cut would have been ECC&#8230;because registered ECC DRAM at the Beast&#8217;s speeds is so freaking expensive that the memory was about a third of the entire build budget.  And now we&#8217;d have a vulnerable machine.<\/p>\n<p>As it is, the Beast roars in triumph over the Rowhammer.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and what I&#8217;m currently doing with the Beast?  Why, I&#8217;m <em>repairing the very fabric of time..itself!<\/em> Explanation to follow, probably early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All my readers should be aware of the Rowhammer attack by now. It gives me great pleasure to report that thanks to our foresight in specifying ECC memory for the design, the Great Beast of Malvern has armor of proof against this attack. The proof being over a thousand runs of the Rowhammer test. Thank&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/?p=6698\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Great Beast is armored!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6698"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6701,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6698\/revisions\/6701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/esr.ibiblio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}