On Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 3:10:53 PM UTC-5, jean-pierre.muench 
wrote:
>
> Hey Jeff, 
>
> from what I understand when it comes to Spectre, it needs mitigations at 
> the assembly level (I think it needs an lfence instruction in front of 
> vulnerable branch instructions). 
>
> ...
> If this interpretation of how the compiler handles external assembly is 
> correct, then we'd have to provide our own Spectre and Meltdown 
> mitigations for our assembly code. Of course, I don't know exactly what 
> extra instructions are needed at what locations. 
>

Yeah, from what I have seen of the Reptoline remdiations that sounds about 
right.

It puts security libraries in an uncomfortable position.

Jeff 

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