Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 21:50:51 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, pageexec@freemail.hu,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] Randomize kernel base address on boot
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* Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> wrote:

> [...] the possibility of local attackers performing cache timing 
> attacks to find the kernel image location at runtime, [...]

How would these work, roughly?

Thanks,

	Ingo
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