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Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The attack has been dubbed GoFetch: https://gofetch.fail/

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[–] [email protected] 208 points 7 months ago (21 children)

This requires local access to do and presently an hour or two of uninterrupted processing time on the same cpu as the encryption algorithm.

So if you're like me, using an M-chip based device, you don't currently have to worry about this, and may never have to.

On the other hand, the thing you have to worry about has not been patched out of nearly any algorithm:

https://xkcd.com/538/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

What I’m worried about is Apple overreacting and bottlenecking my M3 pro because “security”. We already saw how fixes for these types of vulnerabilities on Intel and AMD silicon affected performance; no thank you.

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