[ale] Lock up your wives and children: DDR4 and ECC susceptible to Rowhammer

[Lightner, Jeff]

I thought Common Core was THE effort for destructive mathematics.  :p

From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim Kinney
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2016 8:51 AM
To: Atlanta User Group (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [ale] Lock up your wives and children: DDR4 and ECC susceptible to Rowhammer


Interesting.

I can foresee the development of a new field of study in engineering: destructive mathematical analysis.
On Mar 19, 2016 8:25 AM, "Dustin Strickland" <dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com<mailto:dustin.h.strickland at gmail.com>> wrote:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/03/once-thought-safe-ddr4-memory-shown-to-be-vulnerable-to-rowhammer/

An interesting find here - they've discovered that some timing/bit flip patterns cause quicker results. Like singing at the resonant frequency of a window...

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