Pope Meltdown I

Encyclical

"Speculatio Liquefacta". On 3 January 2018 the world learned that speculative execution, the trick that had made processors fast for twenty years, let an ordinary program read kernel memory. Operating systems and clouds rewrote themselves in a hurry with KPTI, paying in performance. It was the year security went all the way down into the silicon, and we learned that hardware needs patches too.

Saint page: Saint Meltdown, Who Melted the Wall Between User and Kernel

Cardinals

Saint Spectre · Saint Foreshadow, Who Read the Enclaves' Future