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stephengillie on Nov 6, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Virtual machine used to steal crypto keys from ot...

The scientists focused specifically on the Xen hypervisor, which is used by services such as EC2.

Are other hypervisors vulnerable to this exploit?

wmf on Nov 6, 2012 [–]

They probably all are, since it's really a hardware side channel. Anything that lets two processes run on the same cache.

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